METHODS: Two parameters of health care click here outcome, mortality and years of life lost (YLL), were regressed on direct and indirect measures of health care spending. We used ordinary least squares, Prais-Winsten,

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RESULTS: Our findings showed that health care spending was associated with mortality and YLL reduction. The strongest association among the independent variables was seen for spending for prevention. The strongest association for the dependent variables was seen for cardiovascular disease followed by injuries. Also, socio-economic status (SES) was shown to be an important confounder in all studied associations. Our data suggest that increases in health care spending find more produce significant increases in health.

CONCLUSION: Health care spending should not be constrained, but instead an optimised resource allocation would afford an increase in health per expenditure. Emphasising spending in prevention and reduction of SES gradients would strengthen this association.”
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