Changes in government spending on healthcare and population mortality in the European union, 1995-2010: a cross-sectional ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Economic measures such as unemployment and gross domestic product are correlated with changes in health outcomes. We aimed to examine the effects of changes in government healthcare spending, an increasingly important measure given constrained government budgets in several European Union countries.

Design

Multivariate regression analysis was used to assess the effect of changes in healthcare spending as a proportion of total government expenditure, government healthcare spending as a proportion of gross domestic product and government healthcare spending measured in purchasing power parity per capita, on five mortality indicators. Additional variables were controlled for to ensure robustness of data. One to five year lag analyses were conducted.

Setting and part

SUBMITTER: Budhdeo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4698832 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature