Open AccessHealth productivity in macroeconomic level in Turkey: A Multi-level Causality Test approach
Author(s) -
Fadime Çınar,
Halil Şengül
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
innovative journal of medical and health science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-9341
pISSN - 2277-4939
DOI - 10.15520/ijmhs.v9i8.2674
Subject(s) - productivity , public health , causality (physics) , public sector , statistic , global health , government (linguistics) , health care , business , economics , environmental health , demographic economics , economic growth , medicine , statistics , mathematics , nursing , linguistics , physics , philosophy , economy , quantum mechanics
Although private health services have been common, it is known that healthis a global public good, and it is related with global public expenditures.Recent studies shoved that productivity in health services is a main domainof government, nongovernmental organizations, and public sector. Thus,increase in productivity of health services provides efficient use of publicgoods. Moreover, public health services and productivity in health sector is apart of macroeconomic level. In this research, it is aimed to evaluate effects ofmacroeconomic indicators in health productivity. In the research, datacollected from Turkey Statistics Institute (TUIK) for 2001-2016 were used toenlighten macroeconomic indicators and health productivity outcomes.According to results of the study, health expenditures and % in GDP rates arecauses for fertility rate (p<0.05). Moreover, health expenditures also causesfor number of health organizations and number of birth (p<0.05). Number ofbirth causes price level indices (p<0.05). All these causality results show thattheir correlations are positive, since both F statistic level and dataobservations support positive correlations.Key words: Health, macroeconomic, productivity