The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures: evidence from the Canadian provinces, 1980-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Public health systems have been centre stage during the COVID-19 pandemic, but governments invest relatively little in public health as compared to curative care. Previous research has shown that public health expenditures are under pressure during recessions and could be politically determined, but very few studies analyze quantitatively their determinants. This study investigates the political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures.

Methods

After constructing a dataset building on disaggregated health expenditures in the Canadian provinces from 1975 to 2018, we use error correction models to study the short-run and long-run influence of fiscal and political determinants on public health expenditures and on curative expenditures.

SUBMITTER: Jacques O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10054196 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature