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International medical technology diffusion |
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| Authors: | Chris Papageorgiou Andreas Savvides |
| Institution: | a Research Department, International Monetary Fund, 700 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20431, United States b Department of Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States c Department of Economics, Oklahoma State, University, Stillwater, OK 74078, United States d Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Abstract: | Does medical technology generated in frontier countries have a significant impact on health outcomes in the rest of the world? This paper considers a framework where non-frontier countries may benefit from medical innovation that is embodied in medical imports or diffuses in the form of ideas. Using a novel dataset from a cross-section of 63 technology-importing countries, we show that medical technology diffusion is an important contributor to improved health status, as measured by life expectancy and mortality rates. |
| Keywords: | International technology diffusion Life expectancy Medical imports Medical students |
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