Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains an enormous burden on healthcare resources in the United States. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), 1 in every 3 deaths is attributed to CVD, and expenses related to CVD represent 17% of overall national health expenditures. Overall, $320 billion are attributed annually to direct costs of, and loss of productivity due to, CVD. By 2030, almost...

The fundamental goal of health care is to increase longevity and optimize physical, psychological, and social well-being at the individual, community, and society levels. An optimal healthcare system should fulfill these goals in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Although we believe that our healthcare system in the United States is going in the right direction, there is certainly room fo...

BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket expenditure to pay for health services could result in financial catastrophe. The purpose of this study was to identify the incidence and determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Colombia. The underlying hypotheses are that low-income and non-insured population in Colombia, and households living in isolated and high level of rurality regions...

The cost of healthcare is increasing inexorably in all countries in the world. Many governments have focused their activities on promoting the effective and economic use of resources allocated to healthcare. Medicines form a small but significant proportion of total healthcare costs and one that has been increasing consistently as new medicines appear into the market place. The writing of a pre...

Objective Arguments to fund obesity prevention have often focused on the growing hospital costs of associated diseases. However, the relative contribution of overweight and obesity to public hospital expenditure growth is not well understood. This paper examines the effect of overweight and obesity on acute public hospital in-patient expenditure in South Australia over time compared with other ...

The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues of this debate by presenting new evidence on the ’red herring’ hypothesis advanced by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999). This hypothesis amounts to distinguishing a mortality from a morbidity component in healthcare expenditure (HCE) and claiming t...

AIMS To estimate the global health expenditure on diabetes among people aged 20-79 years for the years 2010 and 2030. METHODS Country-by-country expenditures for 193 countries, expressed in United States Dollars (USD) and in International Dollars (ID), were estimated based on the country's age-sex specific diabetes prevalence and population estimates, per capita health expenditures, and healt...

This paper empirically examines the short and long-run relationships among healthcare expenditure, income, medical technology, an aging population in a panel of 45 African countries over period 1995-2018. We test for cross-sectional dependence different employ pooled mean group estimator. The results support presence reveal that have relationship. Medical technology are key drivers expenditure ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether overweight or obesity among children (aged 2 to ≤5 years) is associated with direct healthcare costs, after adjusting for child, household, and socioeconomic characteristics. METHODS A longitudinal cohort analysis was performed in 350 children aged 2 years assessed over 3 years of follow-up. Child weight status was determined from mean BMI z-scores at 2, 3.5, an...

The Irish healthcare system has long been criticised for a number of perceived weaknesses, including access to healthcare based on ability-to-pay rather than need. Consequently, in 2011, a newly elected government committed to the development of a universal, single-tier system based on need and financed through Universal Health Insurance (UHI). This article draws on the national and internation...