Estimating health system opportunity costs: the role of non-linearities and inefficiency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Empirical estimates of health system opportunity costs have been suggested as a basis for the cost-effectiveness threshold to use in Health Technology Assessment. Econometric methods have been used to estimate these in several countries based on data on spending and mortality. This study examines empirical evidence on four issues: non-linearity of the relationship between spending and mortality; the inclusion of outcomes other than mortality; variation in the efficiency with which expenditures generate health outcomes; and the relationship among efficiency, mortality rates and outcome elasticities.

Methods

Quantile Regression is used to examine non-linearities in the relationship between mortality and health expenditures along the mortality distribution. Data Enve

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Villafuerte K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617442 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature