Investigating the Determinants of Healthcare Expenditures in Different Healthcare Systems

作者: Pouran Raeissi , Mohammad Reza Rajabi , Abdoreza Mousavi , Sajad Vahedi , Touraj Harati Khalilabad

DOI: 10.5812/SEMJ.86506

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摘要: Background: The rapid growth of health expenditures is a great concern for governments at present. Objectives: present study aimed to determine the main factors affecting care in countries with different types healthcare system. Methods: We studied 25 systems, including national insurance, traditional sickness services, and mixed systems. Health expenditure per capita was estimated as function price, out-of-pocket expenditure, income, other exogenous factors. A random-effects model selected instead fixed-effects based on Hausman test assess effect expenditures. Results: Income price had greatest impacts insurance respectively. Among variables, mortality life expectancy all most least systems Conclusions: showed that condition are important determinants especially

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