The social value of health: A frontier analysis of life expectancy gaps across 33 European countries

Leonardo Becchetti, Gianluigi Conzo and Giovanni Trovato

Health Policy, 2023, vol. 133, issue C

Abstract: We estimate the life expectancy gaps that can be bridged by improving the quality of public health and health care policies at the country level. Our model calculates the net effect of amenable deaths on life expectancy after controlling for time effects and factors affecting amenable deaths related to education, health policies (health expenditure to GDP and waiting lists), and per capita income in a two equation system. We further estimate the life expectancy gap that countries with lower quality health systems can bridge by catching up and reaching the existing health quality frontier and compute the social value of that upside potential.

Keywords: Life expectancy; Amenable deaths; Domestic health systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104824

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