نتایج جستجو برای: medical care expenditure
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The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) is a powerful tool for analyzing enrollees' access to medical care (Adler, 1994). Based on a stratified random sample, we can derive information about the health care use, expenditure, and financing of Medicare's 36 million enrollees. We can also learn about those enrollees' health status, living arrangements, and access to and satisfaction with ca...
BACKGROUND Measuring spending on diseases is critical to assessing the value of medical care. OBJECTIVE To review the current state of cost of illness estimation methods, identifying their strengths, limitations, and uses. We briefly describe the current National Health Expenditure Accounts, and then go on to discuss the addition of cost of illness estimation to the National Health Expenditur...
Healthcare expenditure is increasing exponentially, and reducing this expenditure (i.e., offering effective and efficient quality healthcare treatment) is becoming a priority not only in the United States, but also globally (Bush, 2004; Oslo Declaration, 2003;Global Medical Forum, 2005). In the final report compiled by the Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America (Institute of Medicine...
Introduction: Health expenditure, one of the households spending, is affected by family’s socio-economic status, and government health policies, such as health insurance. Therefore, this paper aimed to analyze the impact of these conditions on different levels of health expenditures of households in Iran. Methods: In this applied study, an econometric model, Ordered Probit, was used. T...
Background and Aim: In attention to pressing need to cost containment and service efficiency, laboratory services serve as a central locus for controlling health care expenditure. This study intents to investigate proportion of laboratory utilization in Iran to pave the way for future interventions. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the proportion for ...
UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Health care expenditure has been low over the years in developing regions of the world. A majority of countries in these regions, especially sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), rely on donor grants and loans to finance health care. Such expenditures are not only unsustainable but also inadequate considering the enormous health care burden in the region. The objectives of this stu...
BACKGROUND Esophageal cancer is associated with substantial disease burden in China, and data on the economic burden are fundamental for setting priorities in cancer interventions. The medical expenditure for the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer in China has not been fully quantified. This study aimed to examine the medical expenditure of Chinese patients with esophageal cancer and ...
BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the availability, use, and affordability of medicines in urban China following the 2009 Health Care System Reform that included implementation of universal health coverage (UHC). METHODS This longitudinal study was performed in Hangzhou (high income, eastern China) and Baoji (lower income, western China). Five yearly household surveys were conducted (one...
BACKGROUND Public hospitals in China play an important role in tuberculosis (TB) control. Three models of hospital and TB control exist in China. The dispensary model is the most common one in which a TB dispensary provides both clinical and public health care. The specialist model is similar to the former except that a specialist TB hospital is located in the same area. The specialist hospital...
© 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors In his review of the literature on Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) and the implications for the integration of MSAs into Canada’s health care system (see page 159 of this issue), Samuel Shortt rightly emphasizes that MSAs must be assessed, not against a predominately privately financed system such as the one in Singapore, or a fragmented, mul...
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