Sağlık harcamaları ile ekonomik büyüme arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi

In the 1960s, endogenous growth theories revealed that human capital as much effect as as physical capital in economic growth. Then, it was focused on how to increase human capital accumulation, and it was determined that first of all, education and then health were two main components. There are a lot of studies in the literature trying to assess the relationship between health expenditures and economic growth. In the studies on the relationship between economic growth and health expenditures, which is the subject of this thesis, it has been observed that economic growth is increased by health expenditures generally, but there are some studies that show that it does not affect economic growth even decrease. In this thesis, the relationship between health expenditures and economic growth has been examined for OECD countries, including Turkey, with five different methods: panel data analysis, structural break panel data analysis, panel causality test, dynamic panel data analysis and non-linear panel data analysis. In these methods, firstly, the relationship between health expenditures and economic growth is examined, then the other components of economic growth that are generally accepted in the literature, such as capital accumulation, total factor productivity and the democracy index, whose effects on economic growth are discussed, are included in the model to determine the effect of health expenditures on economic growth. has been studied. In addition, although there are studies on the optimal level of public expenditures in the literature, it has been observed that there is no study on the optimal level of health expenditures in OECD countries, and it has been tried to calculate at which health expenditure level the economic growth will be maximum