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Health care spending as determinants of health outcomes

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  • Pierre‐Yves Crémieux
  • Pierre Ouellette
  • Caroline Pilon

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This paper revisits the relationship between health care spending and health outcomes. While previous researchers found it difficult to establish such a relationship based on international comparisons, the results based on rather homogenous province‐specific Canadian data show that lower health care spending is associated with a statistically significant increase in infant mortality and a decrease in life expectancy in Canada. This relationship is independent of various economic, socio‐demographic, nutritional and lifestyle factors, as well as provincial specificity or time trend. It is based on annual data collected from the ten Canadian provinces over 15 years. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Pierre‐Yves Crémieux & Pierre Ouellette & Caroline Pilon, 1999. "Health care spending as determinants of health outcomes," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 8(7), pages 627-639, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:8:y:1999:i:7:p:627-639
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199911)8:7<627::AID-HEC474>3.0.CO;2-8
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