The Socio-Economic Determinants of the Number of Physicians in Italian Regions

Angelo Leogrande, Alberto Costantiello () and Domenico Leogrande

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Abstract: In the following article, we analyse the determinants of the number of physicians in the context of ISTAT BES-Benessere Equo Sostenibile data among twenty Italian regions in the period 2004-2022. We apply Panel Data with Random Effects, Panel Data with Fixed Effects, and Pooled OLS-Ordinary Least Squares. We found that the number of Physicians among Italian regions is positively associated, among others, to “Trust in the Police and Firefighters”, “Net Income Inequality”, and negatively associated, among others, to “Research and Development Intensity” and “Soil waterproofing by artificial cover”. Furthermore, we apply the k-Means algorithm optimized with the Silhouette Coefficient and we find the presence of two clusters. Finally, we confront eight different machine-learning algorithms to predict the future value of physicians and we find that the PNN-Probabilistic Neural Network is the best predictive algorithm.

Keywords: Analysis of Health Care Markets; Health Behaviors; Health Insurance; Public and Private; Health and Inequality; Health and Economic Development; Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 I12 I14 I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-02
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Working Paper: The Socio-Economic Determinants of the Number of Physicians in Italian Regions (2023)
Working Paper: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF THE NUMBER OF PHYSICIANS IN ITALIAN REGIONS (2023)
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