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Health care spending as determinants of health outcomes

✍ Scribed by Pierre-Yves Crémieux; Pierre Ouellette; Caroline Pilon

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
85 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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✦ Synopsis

This paper revisits the relationship between health care spending and health outcomes. While previous researchers found it difficult to establish such a relationship based on international comparisons, the results based on rather homogenous province-specific Canadian data show that lower health care spending is associated with a statistically significant increase in infant mortality and a decrease in life expectancy in Canada. This relationship is independent of various economic, socio-demographic, nutritional and lifestyle factors, as well as provincial specificity or time trend. It is based on annual data collected from the ten Canadian provinces over 15 years.

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