Table 1 Different index variables meaning and the data sources
From: Determinants of China’s health expenditure growth: based on Baumol’s cost disease theory
Variables | Description | Data Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dependent variables | Health expenditure | lnTHE | Per capita actual health expenditure | China Health Care Statistics Yearbook |
Government health expenditure | lnGHE | Per capita actual government health expenditure | ||
Social health expenditure | lnSHE | Per capita actual social health expenditure | ||
Personal cash health expenditure | lnOOP | Per capita actual personal cash expenditure | ||
Independent variables | Demography | lnPOP65 | The proportion of people aged 65 and over | China Population and Employment Statistics Yearbook |
Income | lnGDP | Real per capita GDP | China Statistical Yearbook | |
Baumol variable | BV | \(\varDelta log\left({C}_B(t)\right)=\frac{\left(\hat{w}-\hat{y}\right)}{l{(t)}_B}\) | China Statistical Yearbook, China Demographic and Labour Statistics Yearbook | |
Technology | lnRD | The ratio of R&D expenditure to regional GDP | China Science and Technology Statistical Yearbook | |
Control variables | Supplier | lnDOC | The number of health technicians per 1000 population | China Health Care Statistics Yearbook |
lnBED | The number of beds in health institutions per 1000 population | |||
Demander | lnOUTP | The average number of medical visits | ||
lnINP | The annual hospitalization rate | |||