IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aka/soceco/v37y2015i1p73-88.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The impact of the recession on health care expenditure — How does the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia compare to other OECD countries?

Author

Listed:
  • Petra Baji

    (Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Health Economics, Budapest, Hungary
    Prague, Czech Republic)

  • Márta Péntek

    (Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Health Economics, Budapest, Hungary)

  • Imre Boncz

    (University of Pécs, Institute of Health Insurance and Management, Pécs, Hungary)

  • Valentin Brodszky

    (Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Health Economics, Budapest, Hungary)

  • Olga Loblova

    (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

  • Nóra Brodszky

    (Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary)

  • László Gulácsi

    (Corvinus University of Budapest Department of Health Economics Budapest Hungary)

Abstract

In the past few years, several papers have been published in the international literature on the impact of the economic crisis on health and health care. However, there is limited knowledge on this topic regarding the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The main aims of this study are to examine the effect of the financial crisis on health care spending in four CEE countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in comparison with the OECD countries. In this paper we also revised the literature for economic crisis related impact on health and health care system in these countries. OECD data released in 2012 were used to examine the differences in growth rates before and after the financial crisis. We examined the ratio of the average yearly growth rates of health expenditure expressed in USD (PPP) between 2008–2010 and 2000–2008. The classification of the OECD countries regarding “development” and “relative growth” resulted in four clusters. A large diversity of “relative growth” was observed across the countries in austerity conditions, however the changes significantly correlate with the average drop of GDP from 2008 to 2010. To conclude, it is difficult to capture visible evidence regarding the impact of the recession on the health and health care systems in the CEE countries due to the absence of the necessary data. For the same reason, governments in this region might have a limited capability to minimize the possible negative effects of the recession on health and health care systems

Suggested Citation

  • Petra Baji & Márta Péntek & Imre Boncz & Valentin Brodszky & Olga Loblova & Nóra Brodszky & László Gulácsi, 2015. "The impact of the recession on health care expenditure — How does the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia compare to other OECD countries?," Society and Economy, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 37(1), pages 73-88, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:37:y:2015:i:1:p:73-88
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://akademiai.com/content/q1n2915762lmh250/fulltext.pdf
    Download Restriction: subscription
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version below or search for a different version of it.

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Joana Cima & Alvaro S Almeida, 2018. "Health Expenditure, GDP Growth and the Financial Crisis: A Panel Data Analysis for OECD European Countries," FEP Working Papers 602, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    austerity; recession; health; heath care; Central-Eastern Europe; Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:37:y:2015:i:1:p:73-88. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kriston, Orsolya (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://akademiai.hu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.