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. 2023 Oct 10;9(10):e20573. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20573

Table 7.

One-step results of health production and inefficiency component.

Variables Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Health production function
 Health spending 0.0625*** 0.0630*** 0.0639***
(0.00405) (0.00404) (0.00390)
 Health spending squared −0.00521*** −0.00530*** −0.00526***
(0.000396) (0.000396) (0.000391)
 Employment 0.0254*** 0.0260*** 0.0275***
(0.00235) (0.00229) (0.00225)
 Education 0.0209*** 0.0205*** 0.0195***
(0.00176) (0.00179) (0.00175)
 Share of population aged 65+ 0.0163*** 0.0176*** 0.0160***
(0.00208) (0.00213) (0.00223)
 Constant 6.596*** 6.591*** 6.579***
(0.0159) (0.0154) (0.0145)
Inefficiency function
 SHI (Reference: No SHI) −0.0354*** −0.0547*** −0.0493***
(0.00831) (0.0134) (0.0088)
 External (Reference: Private) −0.169* −0.279*** −0.3554
(0.0864) (0.104) (0.2346)
 Mixed (Reference: Private) −0.0875*** −0.190*** −0.2043***
(0.0261) (0.0538) (0.0783)
 Public (Reference: Private) 0.0102 −0.00517 −0.0228
(0.00742) (0.0123) (0.0886)
 Compulsory health financing −0.0299***
(0.00612)
 Government health spending −0.00822**
(0.00360)
 Out-of-pocket health spending 0.0104**
(0.00405)
 Constant 0.117*** 0.0248** −0.0396**
(0.0168) (0.0119) (0.0186)
Model parameters
 Sigma u (σu) 0.028*** 0.038*** 0.133**
(0.0031) (0.0046) (0.0662)
 Sigma v (σv) 0.009*** 0.009*** 0.010***
(0.0006) (0.0005) (0.0005)
 Lambda (λ)
3.238*** 4.159*** 13.704***
(0.0031)
(0.0047)
(0.0663)
Observations 910 910 910
Number of countries 46 46 46
Log-likelihood 2569.76 2550.73 2541.52
Wald chi2 1584.75 1494.14 1748.80
Prob.>χ2 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000

Robust standard errors in parentheses; **p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1; SHI: Social Health Insurance.