Regional well-being inequalities arising from healthcare expenditure public policies in Spain.

ABSTRACT: Well-being inequalities arising from different healthcare expenditure public policies is currently a hot topic at a national scale, but especially so at a sub-national level because the inequalities in question are among citizens of the same country. Spain is an optimal study area to carry out research on this topic because it is considered to have one of the best health systems in the world, it is one of the top-ranking countries in terms of life expectancy rates (the indicators we use for well-being), and it has a decentralized public health system with significantly different regional healthcare expenditure public policies. Given that the factors involved in the complex direct, indirect, and second-order relationships between well-being and health spending are latent in nature, and that

SUBMITTER: Valls Martinez MDC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9533108 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature