Health care spending as determinants of health outcomes
利用加拿大各省15年数据，发现医疗支出降低与婴儿死亡率上升和预期寿命下降显著相关，且不受经济、人口等因素影响。
This paper revisits the relationship between health care spending and health outcomes. While previous researchers found it difficult to establish such a relationship based on international comparisons, the results based on rather homogenous province-specific Canadian data show that lower health care spending is associated with a statistically significant increase in infant mortality and a decrease in life expectancy in Canada. This relationship is independent of various economic, socio-demographic, nutritional and lifestyle factors, as well as provincial specificity or time trend. It is based on annual data collected from the ten Canadian provinces over 15 years.