Increased social spending was associated with health improvements at the population level, while health spending increases did not have the same effect, according to a large Canadian study.
“Spending more on health care sounds like it should improve health, but our study suggests that is not the case and social spending could be used to improve the health of everyone,” says Dr Daniel Dutton, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. “Relative to health care, we spend little on social services per person, so redistributing money to social services from health care is actually a small change in health care spending.” ….more