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Health care expenditures in the United States and five industrialized economies: A pooled time-series cross-section model

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Date Issued:
1994
Summary:
This thesis empirically analyzes the determinants of national health care expenditures in the United States and five other industrialized economies. A reduced-form model for national health care expenditures, based upon a partial-adjustment mechanism, is specified as a function of supply and demand factors in interrelated markets in the medical sector and estimated for the United States for the period 1960 to 1990. A pooled model is also estimated for a cross-section of six industrialized economies based upon time series data from 1976 to 1990 for each country. The results suggest that income, technological change, and inflation have a significant impact on national health care expenditures.
Title: Health care expenditures in the United States and five industrialized economies: A pooled time-series cross-section model.
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Name(s): Shah, Sandhya K.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Manage, Neela D., Thesis advisor
College of Business
Department of Economics
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1994
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 91 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis empirically analyzes the determinants of national health care expenditures in the United States and five other industrialized economies. A reduced-form model for national health care expenditures, based upon a partial-adjustment mechanism, is specified as a function of supply and demand factors in interrelated markets in the medical sector and estimated for the United States for the period 1960 to 1990. A pooled model is also estimated for a cross-section of six industrialized economies based upon time series data from 1976 to 1990 for each country. The results suggest that income, technological change, and inflation have a significant impact on national health care expenditures.
Identifier: 15109 (digitool), FADT15109 (IID), fau:11886 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Business
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994.
Subject(s): Medical care, Cost of
Medical care--Cost control
Medical economics
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