BACKGROUND Little is known about expenditure items of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients over recent years in France. OBJECTIVE To describe healthcare expenditure among MS patients and identify the main expenditure drivers. METHODS All healthcare expenditure reimbursed by French National Health Insurance to MS patients in 2013 was described on the basis of nationwide health administrative dat...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effects of household expenditure survey characteristics on the estimated share of a household's expenditure devoted to health. METHODS A search was conducted for all country surveys reporting data on health expenditure and total household expenditure. Data on total expenditure and health expenditure were extracted from the surveys to generate the health expenditure s...

Background: infant mortality rate is one of the main health indicators for assessing the health system’s performance over the world. We aim to examine the socioeconomic and health system factors affect infant mortality in OPEC from 2004 to 2013. Methods: was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (total fertility rate per women, GDP per capita (current US$), public h...

introduction: any rise in health expenditure is the main concern of householders and policymakers. a few studies have been conducted on assessing the determinants of expenditures and environmental quality from a macroeconomic point of view. this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between health expenditure and environmental quality in more than 114 developing countries between 1995 and...

objectives: although for those spinal cord injury (sci) patients with paralysis of the legs but not at arms, the primary means of mobility post injury is the manual wheelchair, there are many physiological and psychological advantages to standing and walking, such as improvement in respiratory function, lower limb weight bearing and preventing osteoporosis, pressure sores prevention etc. high m...

Evaluative judgments are known to depend heavily on context. For example, the same car that would have been experienced as having brisk acceleration in 1950 would seem sluggish to most drivers today. Similarly, a house of given size is more likely to be viewed as adequate the larger it is relative to other houses in the same local environment. And an effective interview suit is one that compare...

We measured the energy expenditure weekly in patients undergoing a pylorus preserving pancreatoduodenectomy for bile duct cancer or pancreatic tumors. Twelve patients (5 women and 7 men; mean age 70.1 years) were enrolled in this study, and their resting energy expenditure levels were determined by indirect calorimetry. In these patients, a significant correlation was observed between the measu...