AUTHOR=Tavares Aida Isabel 

TITLE=Treatable mortality and health care related factors across European countries

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=12

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1301825

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2024.1301825

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=<sec id="sec1"><title>Introduction</title><p>Despite the improvements in European health systems, a large number of premature deaths are attributable to treatable mortality. Men make up the majority of these deaths, with a significant gap existing between women and men’s treatable mortality rate in the EU.</p></sec><sec id="sec2"><title>Aim</title><p>This study aims to identify the healthcare-related factors, including health expenditures, human and physical resources, and hospital services use associated with treatable mortality in women and men across European countries during the period 2011–2019.</p></sec><sec id="sec3"><title>Methods</title><p>We use Eurostat data for 28 EU countries in the period 2011–2019. We estimate a panel data linear regression with country fixed effects and quantile linear regression for men and women.</p></sec><sec id="sec4"><title>Results</title><p>The results found (i) differences in drivers for male and female treatable mortality, but common drivers hold the same direction for both sexes; (ii) favorable drivers are GDP <italic>per capita</italic>, health expenditures, number of physicians <italic>per capita</italic>, and (only for men) the average length of a hospital stay, (iii) unfavorable drivers are nurses and beds <italic>per capita</italic>, although nurses are not significant for explaining female mortality.</p></sec><sec id="sec5"><title>Conclusion</title><p>Policy recommendations may arise that involve an improvement in hospital bed management and the design of more specific policies aimed at healthcare professionals.</p></sec>