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Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea
This paper analyzes the impact of population aging on health care expenditures in Korea. Examination of the age-expenditure profile reveals that health care resources are allocated more for the older cohort of population over time, suggesting significant growth of health care expenditures due to pop...
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Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954579/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20948958 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7083235 |
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author | Tchoe, Byongho Nam, Sang-Ho |
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description | This paper analyzes the impact of population aging on health care expenditures in Korea. Examination of the age-expenditure profile reveals that health care resources are allocated more for the older cohort of population over time, suggesting significant growth of health care expenditures due to population aging. We contend, however, that population aging is considered as a parameter rather than an independent variable to explain rising health care expenditures. This paper shows that population aging is not found to be a significant determinant of health care expenditures according to the econometric analysis using OECD health data and time-series data for Korea. Using the components decomposition method, which measures the contribution of each component of health care expenditure, we estimate that population aging contributes only less than 10 percent. |
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spelling | pubmed-29545792010-10-14 Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea Tchoe, Byongho Nam, Sang-Ho Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This paper analyzes the impact of population aging on health care expenditures in Korea. Examination of the age-expenditure profile reveals that health care resources are allocated more for the older cohort of population over time, suggesting significant growth of health care expenditures due to population aging. We contend, however, that population aging is considered as a parameter rather than an independent variable to explain rising health care expenditures. This paper shows that population aging is not found to be a significant determinant of health care expenditures according to the econometric analysis using OECD health data and time-series data for Korea. Using the components decomposition method, which measures the contribution of each component of health care expenditure, we estimate that population aging contributes only less than 10 percent. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010-08 2010-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2954579/ /pubmed/20948958 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7083235 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tchoe, Byongho Nam, Sang-Ho Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea |
title | Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea |
title_full | Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea |
title_fullStr | Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea |
title_short | Aging Risk and Health Care Expenditure in Korea |
title_sort | aging risk and health care expenditure in korea |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954579/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20948958 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7083235 |
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