Determinants of health care expenditure

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The study of the determinants of health care expenditure has been one of the important issues in developments of economy of a country. Most of the researchers preferred study on the health expenditure of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries because most of the OECD countries are developed countries. Developed countries have one major characteristic that is the growing share of health care expenditure in gross domestic product (GDP), so that in those countries, they have such issue where government try to control and to limit the increase of those expenditure. In order to do so, they need to know which are the main determinants of health care expenditure and what is their impact. The aim of this study is to determine which determinants explain the growing of the aggregate health care expenditure in Malaysia. This paper focus on five common independent variables that usually used by researchers that are gross domestic product (GDP), proportion of pop

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