The determinants of health expenditure in Algeria: an application by the autoregressive approach with scaled delays (ARDL)‎

Abstract EN

The objective of this paper is to identify the main determinants of health expenditures in Algeria.

to this end, we applied the ARDL estimation method to model the long-term and short-term dynamics of the relationship between per capita health expenditures and their determinants during the period 1980-2017.

the main empirical results obtained show that the variables: number of doctors per 1000 inhabitants, number of beds per 1000 inhabitants, GDP per capita and public health expenditure in % of total health expenditure have a significant effect on health expenditure in Algeria in the long term.

on the other hand, the other variables, I.

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population and population aged over 65 years old, have no significant impact on the evolution of health expenditure either in the long term or in the short term.