Study of the Education and Health: expenditures in Comunidad Valenciana between the years 2003-2018

Abstract

The following study analyzes the Comunidad Valenciana's budgetary expenditure on health and education between 2003 and 2018. Respect to the budget items in education, the sections of primary education, secondary education, university and higher education, and research, technological development and innovation are analyzed. In the case of health, the items of drug addiction, health care, external benefits, mental health and medium and long-stay health care, and pharmaceutical benefits are analyzed. These items suffer cuts due to the crisis that the country is going through, especially during the years 2011 to 2013. From 2014 onwards, the amount allocated to health and education will increase once again, but their relative weight in the total budget will fall by around 5%. The budget items that fluctuate most in the health expenditures are pharmaceutical benefits, while in education we find two sections with a wide fluctuation: secondary education and university and higher studies.