Convergence analysis of the sources of healthcare funding: an empirical analysis
by Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu, David Han-Min Wang, Yu-Wei Wu
International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research (IJBHR), Vol. 1, No. 2, 2009

Abstract: The healthcare expenditures in Taiwan and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries have significantly increased over recent years. The governments of these countries are facing a funding crisis in healthcare. Their healthcare systems have also come under increasing financial pressure as healthcare demand rises. To shed light on the issue of healthcare funding, this paper performs cluster analysis and a convergence test on the sources of healthcare funding for Taiwan and the OECD countries. The empirical results find that some countries with similar healthcare systems in accordance with sources of healthcare funding are converging together as their principal sources of healthcare funding display convergence trends.

Online publication date: Mon, 30-Mar-2009

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