Petrol Fiyatlarının Kamu ve Özel Sağlık Harcamalarına Etkisi: Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika Ülkeleri Üzerine Ampirik Bir Çalışma

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 53 - 68, 31.12.2017

Fadime İrem Doğan

Abstract

Bu çalışma kamu ve özel sağlık harcamaları ayrımı ile petrol fiyatlarının sağlık harcamaları üzerindeki etkisini

araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Dinamik panel veri analizleri ve Granger nedensellik ve frekans-alanı nedensellik

testleri 1995-2014 yılları arasında seçilmiş on Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika ülkesi için yapılmıştır. Kullanılan

değişkenlerin logaritmik birinci farklarıyla kurulan modeller ile elde edilen temel bulgular şunlardır: petrol fiyatları

kamu ve özel sağlık harcamalarında bir etkide bulunmazken; döviz kuru oranı kamu sağlık harcamaları

üzerinde pozitif, GSYH ve enflasyon oranı da özel sağlık harcamaları üzerinde pozitif ve negatif etki göstermektedir.

Keywords

Sağlık Harcamaları, Petrol fiyatları, Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika ülkeleri

THE IMPACT OF THE OIL PRICES ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH EXPENDITURES: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ON MENA COUNTRIES

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the oil prices on health expenditures, while distinguishing public

from private healthcare services. To analyze the impact of oil prices, dynamic panel data analysis and Granger

causality tests in time and frequency domain analysis are carried out respectively for selected ten countries

in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the period of 1995 – 2014. The main findings that modeled

with log difference of the used variables are as follows: oil prices have no impact on the public and private

health expenditures in the dynamic models. The exchange rate has positive impact on public health expenditures,

while the inflation rate has negative and the GDP has positive impact on private health expenditures.

Keywords

Health expenditures, Oil Prices, MENA Countries

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