Health productivity in macroeconomic level in Turkey: a multi-level causality test approach

Abstract

Although private health services have been common, it is known that health is a global public good, and it is related with global public expenditures. Recent studies shoved that productivity in health services is a main domain of government, nongovernmental organizations, and public sector. Thus, increase in productivity of health services provides efficient use of public goods. Moreover, public health services and productivity in health sector is a part of macroeconomic level. In this research, it is aimed to evaluate effects of macroeconomic indicators in health productivity. In the research, data collected from Turkey Statistics Institute (TUIK) for 2001-2016 were used to enlighten macroeconomic indicators and health productivity outcomes. According to results of the study, health expenditures and % in GDP rates are causes for fertility rate (p<0.05). Moreover, health expenditures also causes for number of health organizations and number of birth (p<0.05). Number of birth causes price level indices (p<0.05). All these causality results show that their correlations are positive, since both F statistic level and data observations support positive correlations.