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Ulf Gerdtham. Foto.

Ulf Gerdtham

Professor

Ulf Gerdtham. Foto.

Pooling international health care expenditure data

Författare

  • Ulf‐G ‐G Gerdtham

Summary, in English

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to analyse the statistical relationship between real health care expenditure per capita and aggregate income, public share in finance, age‐dependency ratio and inflation. The second purpose deals with methodological problems involved in pooling health care expenditure data. The empirical work is based on pooled cross‐sectional, time‐series data for 22 OECD countries from 1972 to 1987. Public finance share and inflation were found to be associated with lower per capita health care expenditure. No consistent correlation was found between the age‐dependency ratio and health care expenditure. Contrary to results of earlier studies, we found that health care expenditure does not appear to be income (GDP) elastic. However, the results do not appear to be robust to changes in the time periods and countries included.

Publiceringsår

1992-01-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

217-231

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Health Economics

Volym

1

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Economics

Nyckelord

  • Health care expenditure
  • income
  • inflation
  • international pooled‐data

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1057-9230