The effect of health care expenditure on sickness absence.
Increased health care expenditure could be used to improve quality of care or reduce waiting time and could therefore be expected to affect the health and sickness absence of a population. Still, based on data from a panel of Swedish municipalities, public health care expenditure was found to have no, or only a negligible effect on absence due to sickness or disability. The same result was obtained when separate estimates were done for men and women and for absence due to sickness and disability.
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Department of Economics, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden. david.granlund@econ.umu.se
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D036262:Empirical Research; D005260:Female; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011634:Public Health / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012044:Regression Analysis; D018582:Sick Leave / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013548:Sweden; D055815:Young Adult