The Link Between Health Care Expenditure and Life Expectancy: Turkey (1975-2015)
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the link between health care expenditure and life expectancy in Turkey, causality and co-integration relationship between health care expenditure (HCE) and life expectancy (LE) in Turkey for the period 1975-2015. In this paper we also used real GDP per capita and some demographic variables such as dependency ratio of the old-aged populations, the number of practicing physicians per hundred thousand persons that may explain the variations in HCE. According to the results of analyze, drperpop, gdp, hce, le65, le70, le75 variables are stable at 1% significance in the first I(1) difference value. The AGE valuable is stable 1% at the level value. There are two long-term cointegration relationships between health spending and life expectant variables. AGE → DGDP, AGE → DLE40, AGE → DLE60, DHCE → DDRPERPOP, DLE80 →DDRPERPOP, DHCE → DGDP and DLE60 → DLE80 shows the direction of granger causality.
Authors and Affiliations
Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Akif Arvas, Res. Asst. Mustafa Torusdağ
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