OECD Ülkelerinde Sağlık Harcamaları ve Ekonomik Büyüme İlişkisi: Panel Nedensellik Analizleri

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 4, 13 - 29, 01.10.2018

Hacı Hayrettin Tıraş Hüseyin Ağır

Abstract

Sağlıklı bir toplum, nitelikli insan kaynağı ve ekonomik büyüme/kalkınma için ciddi öneme sahiptir. Ekonomik büyümenin sağlanmasında temel rollerden birini üstlenen sağlık harcamaları, ülkelerin gelişmişlik düzeylerine göre farklılık göstermektedir. Sağlık harcamaları bireyin ve toplumun sağlık düzeyini yükseltirken, beşeri sermayeye yapmış olduğu katkılar nedeniyle ekonomik büyümeyi de etkilemektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacını OECD ülkeleri örneğinde gelir ve sağlık harcama türleri arasındaki nedensellik ilişkisinin tahmin edilmesi oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada yeni nesil panel nedensellik testlerinden Emirmahmutoğlu ve Köse 2011 panel nedensellik testi kullanılmıştır. Tahminler sonucunda OECD ülkelerinin yaklaşık %80’inde gelir ile ele alınan sağlık harcama türlerinin en az biri arasında nedensellik ilişkisi olduğu bulunmuştur. Bununla birlikte, OECD ülkelerinde gelir artışının en fazla toplam sağlık harcamalarını artırdığı, kamu sağlık harcamalarının artmasının da gelirin artmasına neden olduğu ortaya çıkan sonuçlar arasında yer almaktadır.

Keywords

Sağlık Harcamaları, Ekonomik Büyüme, Panel Nedensellik Analizi

Health Expenditures and Economic Growth Relationship in OECD Countries: Panel Causality Analysis

Abstract

A healthy society has a critical importance for qualitative human resource and economic growth/development. Health expenditures, which play a key role in ensuring economic growth, differ according to development levels of countries. While health expenditure raises the health level of the individual and the society, it also affects economic growth due to the contributions to human capital. The purpose of this study is to estimate the causality relationship between income and health expenditure types in OECD countries. Panel causality test of Emirmahmutoğlu and Köse 2011 was used in the new generation panel causality tests. Estimates suggest that there are causality relationships between income and at least one of studied types of health expenditures in nearly 80% of OECD countries. In addition, it is among the results that the increase in income in the OECD countries increased the total health expenditures at most, and the increase in the public health expenditures caused the income increase.

Keywords

Health Expenditure, Economic Growth, Panel Causality Analysis

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