Özet:

Many countries allocate an increasing percentage of their economic resources to the production and supply of health services. When it comes to the economics, though studies have been made on the proximity of health expenditure, it appears that they are often moving with the presumption of truthfulness. In this study, the validity of the approximation hypothesis in public, private and total health expenditure per person in 18 OECD countries, including Turkey for the period 1979-2016, is analyzed by nonlinear panel unit root tests. Analysis findings show that the fact of proximity applies only to special health expenditure per person.

Özet:

Many countries devote an increasing proportion of their economic resources to produce and provide health care services. Looking at the written economic literature, it can be seen that although there is work on convergence in health expenditures, these studies are generally based on linearity assumption. In this study, the validity of the convergence hypothesis on the public, private and total per capita health expenditures are analyzed by non-linear panel unit root tests in a sample of 18 OECD countries, covering Turkey, over the period 1979-2016. The findings of the analysis show that the convergence hypothesis is valid only for private per capita health expenditure.

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