Impact of health spending on hospitalization rates in Baltic countries: a comparative analysis

• Main Authors: Huan Jiang (Author), Alexander Tran (Author), Inese Gobiņa (Author), Janina Petkevičienė (Author), Rainer Reile (Author), Mindaugas Štelemėkas (Author), Ricardas Radisauskas (Author), Shannon Lange (Author), Jürgen Rehm (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction This study examines the association between healthcare indicators and hospitalization rates in three high-income European countries, namely Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, from 2015 to 2020. Method We used a sex-stratified generalized additive model (GAM) to investigate the imp...