Siyaset Ekonomi ve Yönetim Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Hacı Hayrettin TIRAŞ, Hüseyin AĞIR

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Health Expenditure,Economic Growth,Panel Causality Analysis

Özet: A healthy society has a critical importance for qualitative human resource and economic growth/development. Health expenditures, which play a key role in ensuring economic growth, differ according to development levels of countries. While health expenditure raises the health level of the individual and the society, it also affects economic growth due to the contributions to human capital. The purpose of this study is to estimate the causality relationship between income and health expenditure types in OECD countries. Panel causality test of Emirmahmutoğlu and Köse 2011 was used in the new generation panel causality tests. Estimates suggest that there are causality relationships between income and at least one of studied types of health expenditures in nearly 80% of OECD countries. In addition, it is among the results that the increase in income in the OECD countries increased the total health expenditures at most, and the increase in the public health expenditures caused the income increase.

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