Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Health Care Management, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Risk Analysis, Tr Ministry of Trade, Ankara, Turkey.
Soc Work Public Health. 2022 Jul 4;37(5):435-447. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2021.2018083. Epub 2021 Dec 29.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed the Better Life Index (BLI), which is a multidimensional approach to well-being. This study aims to investigate the impact of health and social expenditures as well as the economic freedom index on well-being measured by BLI among 34 OECD countries for 2013-2017 period. We estimated panel models to observe the social and health expenditure effects according to their sources and the overall impact of economic changes among countries. We find that public and private social expenditures have a positive and statistically significant impact on BLI at 1% significance level. Additionally, whereas public health expenditure has a positive and statistically significant impact on BLI at 1% significance level, the effects of private health expenditure are statistically significant at 10% significance level. The economic freedom index has a positive and statistically significant impact on BLI in both models. Both social and health expenditures should take a prominent position in policy debates for a better life.
经济合作与发展组织（OECD）制定了更好生活指数（BLI），这是一种衡量幸福感的多维方法。本研究旨在调查卫生和社会支出以及经济自由度指数对 2013-2017 年期间 34 个经合组织国家幸福感的影响，幸福感是通过 BLI 衡量的。我们估计了面板模型，以观察根据支出来源和国家间经济变化的总体影响，社会和卫生支出的影响。我们发现，公共和私人社会支出对 BLI 具有积极且在 1%的显著水平上具有统计学意义的影响。此外，虽然公共卫生支出对 BLI 具有积极且在 1%的显著水平上具有统计学意义的影响，但私人卫生支出的影响在 10%的显著水平上具有统计学意义。经济自由度指数在这两个模型中对 BLI 都具有积极且在统计学上显著的影响。社会和卫生支出都应该在更好生活的政策辩论中占据突出地位。
