Alternde Bevölkerung und Gesundheitsausgaben / Ageing Population and Health Care Expenditure
Summary Relevant publications discuss the relation between the demographic process and per-capita health care expenditures (HCE) in a controversial manner. This concerns theory as well as the results of empirical research. Therefore, this paper discusses the influence of an ageing population on HCE in a theoretical framework. It breaks down HCE into three components: time-to-death, morbidity and age structure. The components are analysed theoretically and the results are contrasted with the results of empirical surveys. The paper closes with a discussion whether to include costs of dying and changing morbidity explicitly into forecasting future HCE or not.
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2007
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik. - Lucius & Lucius, ISSN 2366-049X, ZDB-ID 2416178-0. - Vol. 227.2007, 5-6, p. 578-602
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Lucius & Lucius |
Subject: | Ageing population | morbidity | mortality | costs of dying | health care expenditure | contribution rate |
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