The Impact of Health Expenditure on the Number of Chronic Diseases

Publication date: Available online 28 July 2017
Source:Health Policy
Author(s): Leonardo Becchetti, Pierluigi Conzo, Francesco Salustri
We investigate the impact of health expenditure on health outcomes on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50 using individual and regional level data. We find a negative and significant effect of lagged health expenditure on subsequent changes in the number of chronic diseases. This effect varies according to age, health behavior, gender, income, and education. Our empirical findings are confirmed also when health expenditure is instrumented with parliament political composition.



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