The effects of childhood obesity on health spending: evidence from turkey
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2022
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Obesity has become one of the most critical problems faced by health systems worldwide, particularly the increased rate of childhood obesity. The present study investigates the short-run and long-run effects of childhood obesity on total health spending in Turkey. Since obesity may have different effects in the short and long run as a health problem, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method has been adopted to obtain both short and long-run effects in a single model. Separate models have developed for the obesity measures of children from age groups of 5-9 years, 10-19 years and 5-19 years to encompass the different effects based on gender and age groups in the short or long run. Since the increase of income in the short run enables families and the state to make more health expenditures, a positive relationship between income and health spending is found. On the other hand, the rise in long term income provides health infrastructure and preventive and treatment opportunities confirming a negative relationship. The results have revealed the presence of a positive and statistically significant long-run relationship between obesity and health expenditures for all age groups and all gender groups. The findings have confirmed that the increase in the prevalence of obesity in children in the long term would increase health expenditures. Income and obesity have different effects on health expenditures in the long and short run. Therefore, policymakers in the health sector must be aware of these effects. Health status is a long-run phenomenon that changes over a long period. Obesity has a negative relationship with health spending in the short run. In contrast, health spending is expected to increase in the long run due to its adverse effects on adults health in future. The results reveal the positive impact of per capita income on health expenditures in the short run and the reverse impact in the long run. The policymakers at the macroeconomic level should be aware that health infrastructures will decrease society's economic burden in the long run.
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