The Spatial Dimension of Health Systems

Elisa Tosetti; Rita Santos; Francesco Moscone; Giuseppe Arbia

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.287

The Spatial Dimension of Health Systems

Elisa Tosetti, Rita Santos, Francesco Moscone, Giuseppe Arbia

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Abstract

The spatial dimension of supply and demand factors is a very important feature of healthcare systems. Differences in health and behavior across individuals are due not only to personal characteristics but also to external forces, such as contextual factors, social interaction processes, and global health shocks. These factors are responsible for various forms of spatial patterns and correlation often observed in the data, which are desirable to include in health econometrics models.This article describes a set of exploratory techniques and econometric methods to visualize, summarize, test, and model spatial patterns of health economics phenomena, showing their scientific and policy power when addressing health economics issues characterized by a strong spatial dimension. Exploring and modeling the spatial dimension of the two-sided healthcare provision may help reduce inequalities in access to healthcare services and support policymakers in the design of financially sustainable healthcare systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Number of pages	30
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.287
Publication status	Published - Jul 2018

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Name	Econometrics, Experimental and Quantitative Methods , Health, Education, and Welfare , Public Economics and Policy
Publisher	Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Economics and Finance

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The Spatial Dimension of Health Systems. / Tosetti, Elisa; Santos, Rita; Moscone, Francesco et al.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford University Press, 2018. ( Econometrics, Experimental and Quantitative Methods , Health, Education, and Welfare , Public Economics and Policy).

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