caa a22 4500 445332093 CHVBK 20180317142740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10198-010-0221-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10198-010-0221-y Health care expenditures and gross domestic product: the Turkish case [Elektronische Daten] [Seher Sülkü, Asena Caner] Our study examines the long-term relationship among per capita gross domestic product (GDP), per capita health expenditures and population growth rate in Turkey during the period 1984-2006, employing the Johansen multivariate cointegration technique. Related previous studies on OECD countries have mostly excluded Turkey—itself an OECD country. The only study on Turkey examines the period 1984-1998. However, after 1998, major events and policy changes that had a substantial impact on income and health expenditures took place in Turkey, including a series of reforms to restructure the health and social security system. In contrast to earlier findings in the literature, we find that the income elasticity of total health expenditures is less than one, which indicates that health care is a necessity in Turkey during the period of analysis. According to our results, a 10% increase in per capita GDP is associated with an 8.7% increase in total per capita health expenditures, controlling for population growth. We find that the income elasticity of public health expenditures is less than one. But, in the case of private health care expenditures, the elasticity is greater than one, meaning that private health care is a luxury good in Turkey. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Health care expenditure nationallicence Income elasticity nationallicence Cointegration nationallicence Health care reform nationallicence Turkey nationallicence Sülkü Seher Turkish Ministry of Health, Mithatpaşa Cad. No. 3, 06434, Sıhhiye, Turkey aut Caner Asena Department of Economics, TOBB-Economics and Technology University, Söğütözü Cad. No. 43, 06560, Söğütözü, Turkey aut The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/1(2011-02-01), 29-38 1618-7598 12:1<29 2011 12 10198 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0221-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0221-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sülkü Seher Turkish Ministry of Health, Mithatpaşa Cad. No. 3, 06434, Sıhhiye, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Caner Asena Department of Economics, TOBB-Economics and Technology University, Söğütözü Cad. No. 43, 06560, Söğütözü, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/1(2011-02-01), 29-38 1618-7598 12:1<29 2011 12 10198 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer