Death Related Costs Hypothesis in the Czech Health Care System - The Present and the Future

Katerina Pavlokova

Prague Economic Papers, 2010, vol. 2010, issue 1, 74-89

Abstract: Growing concern about fiscal sustainability with respect to the population ageing has given rise to a large debate on the role of age in the context of health care expenditure. Growing evidence on the so called death related costs hypothesis arguing that the positive relationship between age of the cohort and related health care expenditure is the result of growing probability of death changes significantly influencing of the projections. The aim of this paper is to explore the importance of the death related costs hypothesis in the Czech health expenditure data and the impact of the hypothesis on the projection of the financial sustainability of the Czech health care system.

Keywords: health care; last year of life; fiscal sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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