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Title: | Life expectancy and health expenditure evolution in Eastern Europe—DiD and DEA analysis |
Authors: | Jakovljevic, Mihajlo Vukovic M. Fontanesi J. |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Abstract: | © 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Background: Exploration of long-term health expenditure and longevity trends across three major sub-regions of Eastern Europe since 1989. Methods: 24 countries were classified as EU 2004, CIS, or SEE. European Health for All Database (HFA-DB) 1989–2012 data were processed using difference-in-difference (DiD) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). Results: The strongest expenditure growth was recorded in EU 2004 followed by SEE and the CIS. A surprisingly similar longevity increase was present in SEE and EU 2004. In 1989, countries that joined EU in 2004 were relatively inefficient in the number of life-years gained yet had a lower life expectancy than the SEE region and was only slightly higher than the CIS region (DEA). By 2012 the revenue spent was roughly linear to additional life-year expectancies. Conclusion: EU 2004 members were the best performers in terms of balanced longevity increase followed by health expenditure growth. The SEE economies’ longevity gains were lagging slightly behind at a far lower cost. An extrapolated CIS expenditure to longevity increase ratio has the fastest-growing long-term promise. |
URI: | https://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/11731 |
Type: | article |
DOI: | 10.1586/14737167.2016.1125293 |
ISSN: | 1473-7167 |
SCOPUS: | 2-s2.0-84950139756 |
Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kragujevac |
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