Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/6801
Title: Health care expenditures and gross domestic product: the Turkish case
Authors: Sülkü, Seher Nur
Caner, Asena
Keywords: Health care expenditure
Income elasticity
Cointegration
Health care reform
Turkey
Publisher: Springer
Abstract: Our study examines the long-term relationship among per capita gross domestic product (GDP), per capita health expenditures and population growth rate in Turkey during the period 1984-2006, employing the Johansen multivariate cointegration technique. Related previous studies on OECD countries have mostly excluded Turkey-itself an OECD country. The only study on Turkey examines the period 1984-1998. However, after 1998, major events and policy changes that had a substantial impact on income and health expenditures took place in Turkey, including a series of reforms to restructure the health and social security system. In contrast to earlier findings in the literature, we find that the income elasticity of total health expenditures is less than one, which indicates that health care is a necessity in Turkey during the period of analysis. According to our results, a 10% increase in per capita GDP is associated with an 8.7% increase in total per capita health expenditures, controlling for population growth. We find that the income elasticity of public health expenditures is less than one. But, in the case of private health care expenditures, the elasticity is greater than one, meaning that private health care is a luxury good in Turkey.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0221-y
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/6801
ISSN: 1618-7598
1618-7601
Appears in Collections:İktisat Bölümü / Department of Economics
PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection
WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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