OECD Health Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership health studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
- ISSN: 18152015 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18152015
Health Spending Growth at Zero
Which Countries, Which Sectors Are Most Affected?
Health spending slowed markedly or fell in many OECD countries recently after years of continuous growth, according to OECD Health Data 2012. As a result of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, a zero rate of growth in health expenditure was recorded on average in 2010, and preliminary estimates for 2011 suggest that low or negative growth in health spending continued in many of the countries for which data are available.
JEL:
I12: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health Behavior;
I18: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health;
H51: Public Economics / National Government Expenditures and Related Policies / Government Expenditures and Health
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