Long-term care (LTC) must be carefully delineated when expenditures are compared across countries because how LTC services are defined and delivered differ in each country. LTC’s objectives are to compensate for functional decline and mitigate the care burden of the family. Governments have tended to focus on the poor but Germany opted to make LTC universally available ...

VARIATIONS ON THE FAMILIAR REFRAIN “COSTS SHOULD not factor into decisions about health care” permeate contemporary discussions on the state of the US health care system. The US populace seems to strongly agree with this proposition: a 2003 poll indicated that 86% of US citizens do not support the denial of health services for reasons of cost. A significant part of this resistance can be attrib...

Surgical access to the paraclinoid segment of the internal carotid artery is important to know for surgical treatment of aneurysms of the paraclinoid, carotid-ophthalmic and/or anterior cavernous segments of the interAlındığı tarih: 13.01.2013 Kabul tarihi: 01.10.2013 Yazışma adresi: Uzm. Dr. Bülent Güçlü, Sağlık Bakanlığı Şevket Yılmaz Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Nöroşirürji Kliniği, Yıldır...

Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium The paper presents a general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private information to the workers. Firms maximize profits while recognizing that the compensation package may affect the queue of job applicants...

We aimed to assess the risk factors for cost-related medication non-adherence (CRN) among older patients with cancer in the United States. We used data from the 2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to assess risk factors for CRN including age, insurance coverage, nursing home residence, functional limitations, and frequency of hospitalization among old patients with cancer. CRN was self-repor...

The 1950 amendments to the Social Security Act made substantial changes in old-age and survivors insurance coverage and benefits. Of the new provisions that were effective September 1950, one—the increase in current insurance benefits—had an almost immediate effect on public assistance caseloads and expenditures, as reported in the following pages. A later article will summarize the impact on t...

The purpose of this study is to present the information on the duration of treatment and the cost of work-related low back pain. Using the compensation-database for 1997 work-related low back pain (n=9,277), this study estimated the duration of treatment, the cost of work-related low back pain, the relationship between them, and probability of being off treatment at different intervals. The mea...

BACKGROUND Sickness absence in Sweden is high, particularly in young women and the reasons are unclear. Many Swedish women combine parenthood and work and are facing demands that may contribute to impaired health and well-being. We compared mothers and women without children under different conditions, assuming increased sickness absence in mothers, due to time-based stress and psychological st...

BACKGROUND Poverty due to illness has become a substantial social problem in rural China since the collapse of the rural Cooperative Medical System in the early 1980s. Although the Chinese government introduced the New Rural Cooperative Medical Schemes (NRCMS) in 2003, the associations between different health insurance benefit package designs and healthcare utilization remain largely unknown. ...

Using a sample of 2,271 workers from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce whose employers offered personal health insurance, this article investigates the gendered nature of health insurance benefit take-ups. These analyses include family and employment characteristics in addition to employers’ contributions to health insurance premiums, a measure that is unexamined in sociological...