Health care spending as determinants of health outcomes.
This paper revisits the relationship between health care spending and health outcomes. While previous researchers found it difficult to establish such a relationship based on international comparisons, the results based on rather homogenous province-specific Canadian data show that lower health care spending is associated with a statistically significant increase in infant mortality and a decrease in life expectancy in Canada. This relationship is independent of various economic, socio-demographic, nutritional and lifestyle factors, as well as provincial specificity or time trend. It is based on annual data collected from the ten Canadian provinces over 15 years.
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Analysis Group/Economics, Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA, USA. pcremieux@ag-inc.com
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D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D017059:Models, Econometric; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000191:economics*