Economic Analysis of Inter-Relationships between Private Health Insurance and Health Expenditures
Project Member(s): Savage, E., Viney, R.
Start year: 2003
Summary: Health care services involve a complex mix of private and public funding and provision. The links between policy initiatives, such as private health insurance incentives, and outcomes are often unclear. This project involves a detailed economic and econometric investigation of individual health insurance and health care consumption decisions and their interaction, and the resulting impact on health care utilisation and expenditure across public and private sectors. The significance of the project lies in its use of innovative methods to combine several data sources, and in the potential for the resulting models to predict the impact of future health policy initiatives.
FOR Codes: Econometrics