a r t i c l e i n f o Due to healthcare costs rising faster than overall cost of living, decision makers (i.e., households, businesses, and governments) must cut back on healthcare utilization or spending elsewhere to be fiscally responsible. Accurate forecasts of future medical costs are critical for efficient planning, budgeting and operating decisions at all levels. This research compares th...

infections of the cerebrospinal shunts and other neurosurgical structures are not uncommon in the clinical practice. these infections are mostly clinical emergencies carrying negative prognostic impacts on the patients as well as spending healthcare resources. the low pathogenicity nature of some implicated pathogens results in minimal physical signs that may complicate the diagnosis and mislea...

Healthcare Systems (HCSs) throughout the world undergo important changes driven by aging populations and advances in biomedical technologies. At the same time, in the current economic climate, many Western countries are struggling to reduce public spending on all kinds of services, including healthcare. With this tension between tightening budgets and skyrocketing costs, many countries are seek...

A s of 2010, health care–related expenditures in the U.S. totaled some $2.6 trillion (17.9% of the gross domestic product [GDP]). Year after year, healthcare spending rises at double the rate of overall GDP growth, and total healthcare spending growth consistently outpaces overall inflation. This exuberant growth would be welcome if health care were thriving because of its effıciency. Instead, ...

Abstract The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a large shock to risk acquiring disease that represents meaningful threat health. We investigate whether individuals subject larger increases in objective health – operationalized by occupation-based measures proximity other people became more supportive increased government healthcare spending during crisis. Using panel data track UK befo...

In this article we are primarily concerned with the disparity between the ‘mental health consumer’ label which carries implications of consumer power and consumer rights, and the reality underlying consumerist societies which presupposes a level of choice and spending power. The consumer label, while attempting to free the patient/client from an unequal relationship to her or his doctor or heal...

Any Willing Provider and Freedom of Choice laws restrict the ability of managed care entities, including pharmacy benefit managers, to selectively contract with providers. The managed care entities argue this limits their ability to generate cost savings, while proponents of the laws suggest that such selective contracts limit competition, leading to an increase in aggregate costs. We examine t...

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about economic inequality in India during the post-reform period. We analyze consumption inequality through the hitherto neglected lens of nonfood expenditure. Using household level consumption expenditure data from the quinquennial “thick” rounds of the NSS, we show that inequality within food and non-food groups has declined, even as overall expend...