Gauging the cost of aging

To explore the implications of population aging for New Zealand, the New Zealand Treasury collaborated with the Ministry of Health in 2002-04 to build a health expenditure model. The model shows how the demographic and health profile of the New Zealand population is changing and how these changes cr...

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Main Authors: John Bryant, Audrey Sonerson
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spelling th-mahidol.232252018-08-20T14:27:25Z Gauging the cost of aging John Bryant Audrey Sonerson Mahidol University New Zealand Treasury Economics, Econometrics and Finance Social Sciences To explore the implications of population aging for New Zealand, the New Zealand Treasury collaborated with the Ministry of Health in 2002-04 to build a health expenditure model. The model shows how the demographic and health profile of the New Zealand population is changing and how these changes create pressures for increased government health expenditure. Results suggest that future demographic changes may be less threatening than is often assumed. However, maintaining the current growth rates of government health expenditure would mean substantial increases in the ratio between expenditure and gross domestic product. 2018-08-20T06:58:05Z 2018-08-20T06:58:05Z 2006-09-01 Article Finance and Development. Vol.43, No.3 (2006), 48-50 15645142 01451707 2-s2.0-33751504949 https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/23225 Mahidol University SCOPUS https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=33751504949&origin=inward
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John Bryant
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Gauging the cost of aging
description To explore the implications of population aging for New Zealand, the New Zealand Treasury collaborated with the Ministry of Health in 2002-04 to build a health expenditure model. The model shows how the demographic and health profile of the New Zealand population is changing and how these changes create pressures for increased government health expenditure. Results suggest that future demographic changes may be less threatening than is often assumed. However, maintaining the current growth rates of government health expenditure would mean substantial increases in the ratio between expenditure and gross domestic product.
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