KENTLEŞME VE SAĞLIK HARCAMALARI: TÜRKİYE ÜZERİNE EKONOMETRİK BİR ÇALIŞMA
URBANIZATION AND HEALTH EXPENDITURES: AN ECONOMETRIC STUDY ON TURKEY
Author(s): Mehmet Altuntaş, Mehmet ÖZYURTSubject(s): National Economy, Economic history, Social history, Health and medicine and law, Rural and urban sociology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Kafkas Üniversitesi Sağlık, Kültür ve Spor Daire Başkanlığı Dijital Baskı Merkezi
Keywords: Health expenditure; urbanization rate; causality;
Summary/Abstract: The cities have been consisted with increase population of the human communities. In the 18th -19th centuries, by invention of steam engines and with industrial revolution, the society moved from rural areas to cities. Urbanization, which gained momentum towards the end of the 20th century, required the recalculation and effective and efficient use of scarce resources at the urban scale. It is argued that health expenditures are affected by urbanization. The relationship between health expenditures and urbanization remains important. In this study try to investigate relationship between urbanization and health expenditure for Turkey. Toda-Yamamoto Causality test results conducted with a total of 38 observation values between 1980-2017, it has shown that there is a one-way causality relationship between urbanization and health expenditures. In the short term, causality relationship from urban population to health expenditures was determined. However, no causal relationship has been found from health expenditures to urban population.
Journal: Kafkas Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi
- Issue Year: 11/2020
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 891-915
- Page Count: 25
- Language: Turkish