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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Health Expenditures"”.
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The impact of smoking on individual health expenditures: a case study of Namibia
… among the sub-populations least able to pay for healthcare services in LMICs. This, in turn, will perpetuate the vicious cycle of poverty and disease. The current study contributes to developing an understanding of the socioeconomic disparities in smoking in Namibia and their potential …
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The relationship between income, health status, and health expenditures in the United States
The relationship between income and health has important implications for policy makers and businesses, and will continue to receive attention as healthcare reform takes hold in the U.S. Most existing literature looks at the relationship between income and either health status or health …
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Health Expenditures, Time to Death, and Age: A Study of Individual-level, Longitudinal Data to Identify the Combined Role of Age and Mortality in Determining Health Utilization of the Elderly
… the potential impact of aging populations on health care systems in the developed world, evidence from recent decades has shown at best a weak relationship between population aging and health expenditures at the aggregate level. This thesis explores the literature that frames the relationship …
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An investigation of the determinants of public health expenditure in SADC
… investigate the determinants of domestic public health expenditure in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) using annual panel data for the period 2000 to 20 16. Combinations of macroeconomic, technological and demographic factors were used as select determinants. The study also made …
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The costs of adult inpatient care for HIV disease at GF Jooste Hospital
… last two years and the high level of HIV-related health expenditures shouldered by the provincial medical system in the Western Cape province of South Africa. A retrospective chart review was conducted to capture clinical and utilisation data of from a sample of 59 inpatients, who were admitted to …
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Obesity Education For Hmong Adolescents With Obesity In Pediatric Primary Care
… is shaped by the social determinants of health, particularly among marginalized minorities such as the Hmong community. Obesity not only increases morbidity and mortality but also accounts for 20% of U.S. health expenditures. The objective of this quality improvement project was to …
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Efeito dos sistemas de financiamento sobre os sistemas de saúde em países da América Latina e Caribe
… to investigate the impact of transitions between Health Financing Systems (SFS) from predominantly out-of-pocket (OOP) to predominantly government (GOV) or social health insurance (SHI) systems on health outcomes, both intermediate and health outcomes, in Latin American and Caribbean countries, in …
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Investigating Dyadic Shared-Decision Making and Behavioral Health Literacy: Social Anxiety
The cost of obtaining healthcare in the United States has escalated dramatically in the past several years, with similar increases in health expenditures. Behavioral health literacy and shared decision-making have emerged as potential solutions to improve care and reduce costs. However, questions …
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Nursing Innovation As A Solution To Improve Care Delivery
<p>Healthcare in the United States is complex and expensive. The 2023 per capita national health expenditure for the United States was $14,570 and 31% of national health expenditures were related to hospital care (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2024). Healthcare innovation is a …
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Fatores de risco e seu reconhecimento: como a ignorância e a adoção de estratégias podem influenciar no desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares
… social groups, causing immense impact on public health expenditures, besides generating a considerable number of premature deaths. The appearance of morbidities associated with CVD requires significant investments in research, surveillance, prevention, health promotion and the defense of a …
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Equity in Health Financing: Review of Health Care financing in Four organizations for economic cooperation development (OECD) countries, Canada, The republic of Korea, Mexico and the United Kingdom
Background: The World Health Assembly Resolution in 2005 urges Member States to introduce and/or strengthen universal coverage policy in order to offer financial risk protection (FRP) to households in order to avoid catastrophic health expenditures and impoverishment from seeking care. The other …
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Essays on the economics of local labor markets
… and Amy Finkelstein, studies how local area health spending responds to permanent changes in local area income. This chapter is motivated by the fact that health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century, and a common conjecture is that this is primarily …
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Three Essays on Social Stratification, Gender and Health
This dissertation consists of three essays on health inequalities that arise from interactions between education, gender, and socio-cultural context: gender disparities in the educational gradients in weight status, the gender-specific relationship between mortality of parents and offspring's …
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Eliminating waste in US health care: evaluating accountable care organizations as a model for quality sustainable care
In 2011, the United States spent $2.7 trillion in health care expenditures, accounting for 17.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Health care spending increased by 3.9 percent in 2011 and is expected to surpass 20 percent of GDP by 2020. An investigation of national trends in health …
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Economic consequences for households of illness and of paying health care in Zimbabwe: A case study
… consequences of illness and of paying for health care in Zimbabwe. It explores the incidence of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), impoverishment and the factors, (particularly socio-economic factors) associated with them. In addition, this study determines …
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Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from 19 OECD countries from 1969 to 2010
… effects of family leave policy on eight child health outcomes - five age specific child mortality rates (infant, perinatal, neonatal, post-neonatal, and child mortality rates), low birth weight, and immunization rates for measles and DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) across 19 …
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Dynamics In Health Care Expenditures For Emerging And Developed Countries
<p>This paper analyzes the dynamics on health care expenditures and health outcomes for emerging and developed countries. The first part of the study focus on the short-run dynamics in health care expenditures for six emerging and a selected group of six developed economies of the OECD group. An …
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Labor productivity, remittance use, and the impact of the poverty alleviation fund program in Nepal
… In contrast I find a decrease in education expenditures for households receiving domestic remittances. Food expenditures share decreases for households receiving all types of remittances. Households receiving remittances increase the expenditure shares on durables and other consumption …
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