Experiencia comparada europea y el reto de la descentralización sanitaria

This paper analyzes the main characteristics of European health care decentralization models with special attention to the determinants of health outcomes and expenditures and proposes using panel data models, and data from OECD Health Data, an econometric model explaining their behaviour and evolution. The results show that income is the most important factor in explaining the volume of health expenditure both statically and dynamically, while other factors of demand and supply and the degree of decentralization or type of health system, despite also influence are less important. Instead, in health outcomes fiscal decentralization has a more mixed against other factors