What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries
This paper uses panel data to identify the determinants of health care expenditure in twelve Asian countries (i.e. Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) for the period of 1995-2008. The empirical results indicated...
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| author | Furuoka, Fumitaka * Lim, Beatrice Fui Yee Kok, Emily Mohammad Zahirul Hoque, Munir, Qaiser |
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| description | This paper uses panel data to identify the determinants of health care expenditure in twelve Asian countries (i.e. Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) for the period of 1995-2008. The empirical results indicated that only two independent variables (GDPit and POP65it) have significant relationship with health care expenditure in these countries. These two variables are positively correlated with the amount of health care expenditure. In other words, when the countries’ income is larger, the amount of health care expenditure is larger. When the share of ageing population in the total population is higher, again the amount of health care expenditure is larger. |
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| spelling | sunway-3852016-09-29T07:00:43Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/385/ What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries Furuoka, Fumitaka * Lim, Beatrice Fui Yee Kok, Emily Mohammad Zahirul Hoque, Munir, Qaiser HC Economic History and Conditions RA Public aspects of medicine This paper uses panel data to identify the determinants of health care expenditure in twelve Asian countries (i.e. Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) for the period of 1995-2008. The empirical results indicated that only two independent variables (GDPit and POP65it) have significant relationship with health care expenditure in these countries. These two variables are positively correlated with the amount of health care expenditure. In other words, when the countries’ income is larger, the amount of health care expenditure is larger. When the share of ageing population in the total population is higher, again the amount of health care expenditure is larger. Sunway University 2011 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nd http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/385/1/SAJ_8_2011_12-25.pdf Furuoka, Fumitaka * and Lim, Beatrice Fui Yee and Kok, Emily and Mohammad Zahirul Hoque, and Munir, Qaiser (2011) What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries. Sunway Academic Journal, 8. pp. 12-25. ISSN 1823-500X |
| spellingShingle | HC Economic History and Conditions RA Public aspects of medicine Furuoka, Fumitaka * Lim, Beatrice Fui Yee Kok, Emily Mohammad Zahirul Hoque, Munir, Qaiser What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries |
| title | What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries |
| title_full | What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries |
| title_fullStr | What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries |
| title_short | What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries |
| title_sort | what are the determinants of health care expenditure? empirical results from asian countries |
| topic | HC Economic History and Conditions RA Public aspects of medicine |
| url | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/385/ http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/385/1/SAJ_8_2011_12-25.pdf |