Sağlık Harcamaları ve Yaşam Beklentisi İlişkisi Üzerine Bir İnceleme: Türkiye ve Türki Cumhuriyetler Örneği

Abstract

As one of the fundamental health outputs in the health economics literature, the improvement of life expectancy is one of the variables that positively affect economic growth. Many papers, investigating the relationship between health expenditure and life expectancy indicated that life expectancy has a positive effect on health expenditures. This study aims to investigate the relationship between life expectancy and health expenditures for the period of 2000-2015 in Turkey,

Implementing Bayesian Learning in Assessing Performances of Healthcare System and Population Health in Three Transitory European Countries

“…The differences in health care system performances are found to have an impact on the health status of the population through their life expectancy. The empirical evidence is broadly in line with the established debate; see Onofrei et al (2021) and Gedikli and Kırca (2019) for instance. In addition, previous research suggests that healthcare indicators, including the number of hospital beds as well as the number of nurses and midwives per 1000 population could affect population health (Can et al, 2020;Jones, 2018;Jones, 2021a;Jones, 2021b;Czarkowska-Pączeket et al, 2021).…”

“…In addition, the qualitative and quantitative improvements in health expenditures affect health outputs in a positive way. The basic indicators of positive health outputs are the decline in maternal and infant mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy (Gedikli & Kırca, 2019). Also, any improvement in life expectancy leads to a boost in economic growth.…”

“…Since human capital theory predicts that a longer life expectancy reinforces the motivation to make investment in skills, and since human capital is key for the growth, many economists have modeled a causal effect of life expectancy through a channel of investment in human capital (Oster et al, 2013). Some economists who have contributed to the endogenous growth theory have discussed on the theoretical level the relationship between health expenditures, life expectancy and economic growth (Gedikli & Kırca, 2019). As one of the sub-branches of the endogenous growth theory, human capital models bring attention to the importance of human capital in the economic growth process.…”

“…Thus, the endogenous growth theories accept the view of increasing returns of the capital, but including human capital as well. Investigations on the relationship between life expectancy and health expenditures are a meaningful source of data for policy makers when determining health policies (Gedikli & Kırca 2019). The reciprocal relationship between health and economic growth is evident (Can et al, 2020).…”

“…A growing body of literature points to a clear linkage between health expenditures and health outcomes (Zarulli et al, 2021). In the research literature, the relationship between life expectancy and health expenditures could be examined using the data of a single country, as well as using a group of countries or a sample country (Gedikli & Kırca, 2019). Using regression analysis and factor analysis, Onofrei et al (2021) explored the link between public health expenditure and health outcomes among EU less developed countries.…”