Real and predicted mortality under health spending constraints in Italy: a time trend analysis through artificial neural networks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After 2008 global economic crisis, Italian governments progressively reduced public healthcare financing. Describing the time trend of health outcomes and health expenditure may be helpful for policy makers during the resources' allocation decision making process. The aim of this paper is to analyze the trend of mortality and health spending in Italy and to investigate their correlation in consideration of the funding constraints experienced by the Italian national health system (SSN).

Methods

We conducted a 20-year time-series study. Secondary data has been extracted from a national, institution based and publicly accessible retrospective database periodically released by the Italian Institute of Statistics. Age standardized all-cause mortality rate (MR) and heal

SUBMITTER: Golinelli D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6116437 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature