Living Longer with Disability: Economic Implications for Healthcare Sustainability
| Autor: | Alessandro D'Amico, Alessandro Danovi, Stefano Olgiati |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Geography
Planning and Development TJ807-830 Sample (statistics) Management Monitoring Policy and Law Settore SECS-P/02 - Politica Economica TD194-195 Renewable energy sources 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia Aziendale Political science Health care media_common.cataloged_instance GE1-350 030212 general & internal medicine European union China media_common Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Building and Construction sustainability socialized healthcare life expectancy Environmental sciences Work (electrical) Sustainability Life expectancy Russian federation business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Demography |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 4467, p 4467 (2021) Sustainability; Volume 13; Issue 8; Pages: 4467 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13084467 |
| Popis: | This work focuses on the economic implications of the relationship between life expectancy, the number of years lost to disability and per-capita total health expenditure. The primary goal of the paper is to identify and plot the correlation between healthcare expenditure and the global increase in life expectancy, in order to assess if, and how, the way longer average lifespans are achieved affects healthcare sustainability. Datasets regarding the United States, the European Union and the five largest emerging healthcare systems (i.e., Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) were obtained from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the WHO Health Expenditure Statistics Repository. All analysis was performed on 2017 data. The results of the analysis showed the number of years lost to disability to be a linear function of life expectancy at birth (male R2 = 0.61; female R2 = 0.47), and per-capita total health expenditure to be an exponential function of the number of years lost to disability (male R2 = 0.60; female R2 = 0.65). This implies that improving life expectancy via social policies bears negative consequences in terms of healthcare sustainability, unless the number of years lost to disability is reduced too. Further studies should narrow the sample of countries and causes of years lost due to disability, to better inform future policy efforts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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