What drives health care expenditure?—Baumol's model of ‘unbalanced growth’ revisited

What drives health care expenditure?--Baumol's model of 'unbalanced growth' revisited.

The share of health care expenditure in GDP rises rapidly in virtually all OECD countries, causing increasing concern among politicians and the general public. Yet, economists have to date failed to reach an agreement on what the main determinants of this development are. This paper revisits Baumol's [Baumol, W.J., 1967. Macroeconomics of unbalanced growth: the anatomy of urban crisis. American...

What drives public health care expenditure growth? Evidence from Swiss cantons, 1970-2012.

A better understanding of the determinants of public health care expenditures is key to designing effective health policies. We integrate demand and supply-side determinants and factors from political economy into an empirical analysis of the highly decentralized Swiss health care system and control for major health care finance reforms. We compile a novel data set of the cantonal health care e...

What Drives Health-Care Spending Priorities? An International Survey of Health-Care Professionals

Efficiency measurement of health care organizations: What models are used?

Background: Literature abounds with various techniques for efficiency measurement of health care organizations (HCOs), which should be used cautiously and appropriately. The present study aimed at discovering the rules regulating the interplay among the number of inputs, outputs, and decision- making units (DMUs) and identifying all methods used for the measurement of Iranian HCOs and criticall...

What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

Letter to Editor