Relationship between Health Expenditure and GDP in Developed Countries

This study uses international health care expenditure per capita data of 30 developed countries from 1975 to 2011 for exploring the causality between the real per capita health care expenditure (HCE) and real per capita GDP.The findings indicate that bidirectional Granger causality is predominant.KEYWORDs: health care expenditure per capita, GDP per capita, developed countries, Granger causality. I.