Demographic Changes & Aggregate Healthcare Expenditure in Europe. ENEPRI Policy Briefs No. 4, 18 December 2007

This paper extracts the policy implications from ENEPRI Research Report No. 32, prepared under Work Package VI B of the AHEAD Project (Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure) for the European Commission. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between ageing and aggregate healthcare expenditure in EU countries on a macroeconomic level when including economic and institutional variables.