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The OECD economies are undergoing an upward trend in health expenditure. The usual explanations for this tendency are based on such elements as the progressive ageing of population, the increasing use of technology in health procedures, and the fact that public health services become more extensive (cover more people) year after year.
I wish to thank professors Guillem López-Casasnovas, Carlos Pérez Domínguez and José Miguel Sánchez Molinero for their comments, which I have found very helpful. However, I am responsible for any possible mistake.
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García-Prieto, C. (2004). Technical and Allocative Inefficiency in Spanish Public Hospitals. In: Coto-Millán, P. (eds) Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2670-8_6
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