Population ageing alongside health care spending growth

Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure

The OECD’s most recent projections of the impact of population ageing on public expenditures suggest that health and long term care will account for about half of the increase in age-related social expenditures between 2000 and 2050. Projections of health care spending are subject, however, to more uncertainties than projections of pension expenditure. Making reliable forecasts of the impact of...

Flattening the Trajectory of Health Care Spending: Promote Population Health

The Policy Challenge Social and behavioral factors influence the health of Americans as surely as do the efforts of physicians, nurses, and hospitals. To slow health care spending growth, we need to do a better job of addressing the determinants of disease, rather than waiting to treat its consequences. It is estimated that 70 percent of deaths in the United States and a comparable share of hea...

The global slowdown in health care spending growth.

Growth In Health Care Spending In 1987 Treated Disease

Analysis of data from the National Medical Expenditure Survey and the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys from 1987–2009 reinforces previous observations that increased prevalence of treated disease has become the main driver of increased spending on health care in the United States. Higher treated disease prevalence and higher spending per treated case were associated with 50.8 percent and 39.0 ...

Ageing, health, and health care

The population in the developed world has experienced a significant increase in life expectancy over the last 50 years. Simultaneously, while the onset of comorbidities has been deferred to older age groups, health-care expenditure has grown dramatically, primarily owing to the advancement of medical technology and the expansion of individual income levels, along with population ageing in the w...