Mortality reductions from marginal increases in public spending on health
| Autor: | Jonathan Karnon, Hossein Haji Ali Afzali, Terence Chai Cheng, Laura Catherine Edney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Financing Government 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Life Expectancy Environmental health Health care Outcome Assessment Health Care Economics medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Endogeneity Mortality Empirical evidence Models Statistical business.industry 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Public health Instrumental variable Australia Quantile regression Years of potential life lost Life expectancy Costs and Cost Analysis Health Expenditures 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 122(8) |
| ISSN: | 1872-6054 |
| Popis: | There is limited empirical evidence of the nature of any relationship between health spending and health outcomes in Australia. We address this by estimating the elasticity of health outcomes with respect to public healthcare spending using an instrumental variable (IV) approach to account for endogeneity of healthcare spending to health outcomes. Results suggest that, based on the conditional mean, a 1% increase in public health spending was associated with a 2.2% (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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