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The Determinants of Health Expenditures in Tunisia: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

The Determinants of Health Expenditures in Tunisia: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

Sami Chaabouni, Chokri Abednnadher
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781522531685|ISBN10: 1522531688|EISBN13: 9781522531692
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3168-5.ch015
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Chaabouni, Sami, and Chokri Abednnadher. "The Determinants of Health Expenditures in Tunisia: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach." Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 253-267. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3168-5.ch015

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Chaabouni, S. & Abednnadher, C. (2018). The Determinants of Health Expenditures in Tunisia: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 253-267). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3168-5.ch015

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Chaabouni, Sami, and Chokri Abednnadher. "The Determinants of Health Expenditures in Tunisia: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach." In Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 253-267. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3168-5.ch015

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Abstract

This article examines the determinants of health expenditures in Tunisia during the period 1961-2008, using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach by Pesaran et al. (2001). The results of the bounds test show that there is a stable long-run relationship between per capita health expenditure, GDP, population ageing, medical density and environmental quality. In fact, on the one hand there are the short-run and long-run results which reveal that health care is a necessity, not a luxury good. On the other hand, results of the causality test show that there is a bidirectional causal flow from health expenditures to income, both in the short and in the long run.

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