The United States healthcare system : expenditures and coverage rates on public insurance programs
Armengol Segarra, Carla
Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy, dir. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Empresa)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa

Data:	2020
Descripció:	46 pag.
Resum:	The purpose of this work is to provide new empirical evidence concerning the effect of health spending on health outcomes, suggesting a new way to study healthcare performance by setting public healthcare insurance coverage rates as an indicator of health outcomes. The unit of analysis is the United States from 1988 to 2018. A literature review about the healthcare system framework of this country is done so to understand which are the main determinants of public healthcare utilization. Then, an Ordinary Least Squares multiple regression analysis is generated, following a stationary stochastic process to robustly validate the results. Public healthcare insurance coverage rates (% population) is set as the dependent variable. The level of per capita expenditures on public healthcare insurance programs is set as the main explanatory variable (current $) . Real GDP per capita (chained 2012 $) , unemployment rate (% of labor force), tertiary education (% population), alcohol consumption (liters/capita), physicians' density (per 1000 people) and per capita income (adjusted 2018 $) are added to control for other influencing factors of both healthcare utilization and health outcomes and to avoid the introduction of bias. Thought the results obtained, a positive and significant relationship between the level of per capita expenditures on public healthcare insurance programs and public healthcare insurance coverage rates can be assumed. Empirical evidence on the significant effect of unemployment rate and physicians' density on public healthcare insurance coverage rates is also provided.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Titulació:	Economia [2501573]
Pla d'estudis:	Grau en Economia [1280]
Document:	Treball final de grau ; Text

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