Sundhedsudgifter og levetid

Søren Arnberg () and Thomas Bue Bjørner ()
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Søren Arnberg: De Økonomiske Råds Sekretariat, DØRS, Postal: Emil Møllers Gade 41, K-8700 Horsens Danmark
Thomas Bue Bjørner: De Økonomiske Råds Sekretariat, DØRS, Postal: Emil Møllers Gade 41, K-8700 Horsens Danmark

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift, 2010, vol. 2010, issue 1, 43-68

Abstract: An empirical analysis is presented separating the individual public health expenditures of the Danish population into the individual effects of age and proximity to death (reflecting terminal costs of dying). The analysis is based on micro data from the period 2000 to 2007, covering a random sample of 10 percent of the Danish population. Health expenditures include treatment in hospitals, subsidies to prescribed medication and health care provided by general practitioners and specialists. The results show that proximity to death has a significant impact on the health costs of the individual. This has important implications for the future health expenditures. When life expectancy increases, the terminal costs are postponed and the increases in health expenditure that follow from longer life expectancy are not as large as the increase in the number of elderly persons would suggest.

Keywords: Sundhedsudgifter; ældre; levealder; mikroøkonomisk perspektiv (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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