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A Comparison of International Health Outcomes and Health Care Spending

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Akira Babazono  and
Alan L. Hillman
Akira Babazono
Affiliation:
Okayama University Medical School, University of Pennsylvania
Alan L. Hillman
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

Does increased spending improve health outcomes? We analyzed 1988 data from OECD countries to determine how key health care indexes correlate with health care outcomes. Total health care spending per capita and outpatient and inpatient utilization are not related to health outcomes. How our resources are allocated seems to be more important than how much money is actually spent.

Type
Special Section: Assessing Nursing and Technology
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 376 - 381
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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