Crivelli , Luca Filippini, Massimo Mosca, Ilaria 2006 Switzerland (7.2 million inhabitants) is a federal state composed of 26 cantons. The autonomy of cantons and a particular health insurance system create strong heterogeneity in terms of regulation and organisation of health care services. In this study we use a single equation approach to model the per-capita cantonal expenditures on health care services and postulate that per-capita health expenditures depend on some economic, demographic and structural factors. The empirical analysis demonstrates that a larger share of old people tends to increase health costs and that physicians paid on a fee-for-service basis swell expenditures, thus highlighting a possible phenomenon of supply induced demand. application/pdf https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318004 https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318004 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318004/files/filippini_HE_2006.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/hec.1072 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318004 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Health Economics. - John Wiley & Sons Ltd.. - 2006, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 535-541 Federalism regional health expenditures panel data analysis info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Federalism and regional health care expeditures : an empirical analysis for the Swiss cantons http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501