Under current law, national health expenditures are projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.6 percent for 2016-25 and represent 19.9 percent of gross domestic product by 2025. For 2016, national health expenditure growth is anticipated to have slowed 1.1 percentage points to 4.8 percent, as a result of slower Medicaid and prescription drug spending growth. For the rest of the projectio...

A large literature in empirical public finance relies on "bunching" to identify a behavioral response to non-linear incentives and to translate this response into an economic object to be used counterfactually. We conduct this type of analysis in the context of prescription drug insurance for the elderly in Medicare Part D, where a kink in the individual's budget set generates substantial bunch...

The incidence of ocular allergy varies in different geographical regions and tends to be more common in countries with warm climates. In the US, as much as 40% of the general population suffered from allergic conjunctivitis.2-4 In one study of 5000 allergic children, 32% had ocular symptoms as the single manifestation of their allergies.5 A recently published prevalence study in Japan has found...

Introduction Ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) are prescribed for ambulatory children with spastic diplegia to improve biomechanical alignment and functional capability. Orthotic prescription is often based upon clinical experiences, treatment paradigms (biomechanical vs neurodevelopmental), and the perceived desires of the child/family. Previous investigations have reported that AFO use in ambulatory...

We analyze the influence of technological progress on pharmaceuticals on rising health expenditures using US State level panel data. Improvements in medical technology are believed to be partly responsible for rapidly rising health expenditures. Even if the technological progress in medicine improves health outcomes and life quality, it can also increase the expenditure on health care. Our find...

about half of the population in pakistan is food insecure. the study focused the food secure population and the strategies for reducing poverty in district rawalpindi. the study was carried out in district rawalpindi in the punjab province of pakistan. simple random sampling technique was used for this research study in district rawalpindi. a sample of 120 respondents was selected. then the dat...

BACKGROUND A number of studies during the nineties have shown that antihypertensive therapy, particularly using RAS blockade, can reduce uremia progression, and ESRD incidence. METHODS National incidence rates were studied of end stage renal disease (ESRD) for Denmark between 1990 and 2011, and of national prescription of antihypertensive drugs between 1995 and 2010, in order to investigate w...

BACKGROUND Overuse and misuse of prescription opioids is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and places a significant cost burden on health systems. OBJECTIVE To estimate annual statewide spending for prescription opioids in Rhode Island. METHODS A cross-sectional study of opioids dispensed from retail pharmacies using data from the Rhode Island Prescription Drug Monitoring Pr...

BACKGROUND To understand geographic variation in access to care over time in patients with kidney disease. METHODS We analyzed 4404 (weighted sample of 4,251,129) adults with kidney disease from the United States using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey over 10 years. Three dependent variables were created to investigate variation in access: usual source of care, overall medical access to c...

objectives: the assessment of the elderly’s health condition can help to design interventional studies to promote their satisfaction and quality of delivered medical services. we intended to evaluate health priorities of the aged population of minoodasht district. methods & materials: the data were collected from 119 people aged 60 or over through door-to-door structured interviews containing 2...