The Sisyphus syndrome in health revisited

被引：29

作者：

Zweifel P. ^{[1
]}

Steinmann L. ^{[1
]}

Eugster P. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Socioeconomic Institute, University of Zurich, CH-8032 Zurich

来源：

International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics | 2005年 / 5卷 / 2期

关键词：

Dynamic feedback; Health care expenditure; Production of health; Sisyphus syndrome;

D O I：

10.1007/s10754-005-1864-6

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摘要：

Health care may be similar to Sisyphus work: When the task is about to be completed, work has to start all over again. To see the analogy, consider an initial decision to allocate more resources to health. The likely consequence is an increased number of survivors, who will exert additional demand for health care. With more resources allocated to health, the cycle starts over again. The objective of this paper is to improve on earlier research that failed to find evidence of a Sisyphus syndrome in industrialized countries. This time, there are signs of such a cycle, which however seems to have faded away recently. © 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.

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页码：127 / 145

页数：18

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