Becchetti Leonardo, Conzo Pierluigi, Salustri Francesco
Dept. of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata, via Columbia, 2, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Dept. of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Turin, Lungo Dora Siena, 100 A, 10153 Torino, Italy & Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin.
Health Policy. 2017 Sep;121(9):955-962. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.07.008. Epub 2017 Jul 28.
We investigate the impact of health expenditure on health outcomes on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50 using individual and regional level data. We find a negative and significant effect of lagged health expenditure on subsequent changes in the number of chronic diseases. This effect varies according to age, health behavior, gender, income, and education. Our empirical findings are confirmed also when health expenditure is instrumented with parliament political composition.
我们利用个人和地区层面的数据，对50岁以上的大量欧洲人样本研究了卫生支出对健康结果的影响。我们发现滞后卫生支出对慢性病数量的后续变化具有负面且显著的影响。这种影响因年龄、健康行为、性别、收入和教育程度而异。当用议会政治构成作为卫生支出的工具变量时，我们的实证结果也得到了证实。
