What are the determinants of health care expenditure? Empirical results from Asian countries

• Main Authors: Furuoka, Fumitaka *, Lim, Beatrice Fui Yee, Kok, Emily, Mohammad Zahirul Hoque, Munir, Qaiser
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sunway University 2011
• Subjects: HC Economic History and Conditions; RA Public aspects of medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/385/1/SAJ_8_2011_12-25.pdf; http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/385/
• Institution: Sunway University

This paper uses panel data to identify the determinants of health care expenditure in twelve Asian countries (i.e. Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) for the period of 1995-2008. The empirical results indicated...