Esen Ethem, Çelik Keçili Merve
Economic and Administrative Faculty, Department of Economics, Anadolu University, 26470 Eskişehir, Turkey.
Open Education Faculty, Department of Economics and Administrative Programs, Anadolu University, 26470 Eskişehir, Turkey.
J Knowl Econ. 2022;13(3):1786-1800. doi: 10.1007/s13132-021-00789-8. Epub 2021 Apr 15.
This study aims to investigate the effects of health expenditure on economic growth in Turkey. For this purpose, time series data of Turkey over the period 1975-2018 were evaluated. Moreover, household consumption, life expectancy at birth, trade, and foreign direct investments were added as control variables. Cointegration analysis was performed to test whether all variables are cointegrated in the long term. Causality test was successfully employed to investigate the relationship between health expenditure and economic growth in the short term. The achieved results exhibited that Johansen Cointegration test results suggest the existence of cointegration among all variables in the long term. In addition, the Granger causality test results indicate unidirectional causality from health expenditure to economic growth in the short term. Existence of a long-term relationship among related variables and a short-term relationship between health expenditure and economic growth displays the importance of investments on health care services in Turkey. Therefore, investments in the health sector should be encouraged and the share allocated by the government for health expenditures from the budget should be increased in Turkey.
本研究旨在调查土耳其卫生支出对经济增长的影响。为此，对土耳其1975 - 2018年期间的时间序列数据进行了评估。此外，家庭消费、出生时预期寿命、贸易和外国直接投资作为控制变量被纳入。进行了协整分析以检验所有变量在长期内是否协整。成功运用因果关系检验来研究短期内卫生支出与经济增长之间的关系。所得结果表明，约翰森协整检验结果表明所有变量在长期内存在协整关系。此外，格兰杰因果关系检验结果表明短期内从卫生支出到经济增长存在单向因果关系。相关变量之间长期关系的存在以及卫生支出与经济增长之间的短期关系表明了土耳其医疗保健服务投资的重要性。因此，在土耳其应鼓励对卫生部门的投资，并增加政府预算中分配给卫生支出的份额。
