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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"health care expenditures"”.
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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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HEALTH CARE RESOURCE USE, HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES AND ABSENTEEISM COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS
… Jyothi, Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2015. Health Care Resource Use, Health Care Expenditures and Absenteeism Costs Associated with Osteoarthritis. Major Professor: Joseph Thomas III.
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Direct Incremental Costs in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma in United States - An Analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data
… national prevalence and direct incremental expenditures in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma using 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data.</p><p> Methods: COPD and asthma were identified using ICD-9 codes and were the main independent variables. Covariates …
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An Analysis of Health Sector Trends: Incorporating Theories of Unbalanced Growth
International studies of health care expenditures find income elasticities of aggregate demand for health care in the range of 1.0 to 1.5. Applying these same models to a U.S. time series using ordinary least squares to estimate a cointegrating relationship yields estimates in this range. …
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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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An Employee-Centered Care Model Responds To The Triple Aim: Improving Employee Health
<p>Health care expenditures, patient satisfaction and timely access to care will remain problematic if dramatic changes in health care delivery models are not developed and implemented. To combat this challenge a Triple Aim approach is essential. Innovation in payment and health care delivery …
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Interdepdence Of Community Mental Health Care Providers In An Urban County: A Spatial Panel Approach
… dissertation empirically investigates mental health care expenditures between community mental health care providers, using a spatial panel data model. Specifically, it explores the spatial interdependency in the publicly funded mental health care system of Detroit-Wayne County with a spatial …
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Health Care Utilization and Expenditures among People with Disabilities: Variations by Disability Spans
… a disproportionate share of publically funded health care services and expenditures. Prescription drug costs are also one of the most significant expenses for those with disabilities and may impose an extensive financial burden on them. However, data on health care costs among them are sparse. …
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Survey of obesity-related programs in Galveston County Public Schools: A pilot study
… obesity has developed into a major public health concern in the United States. The overweight and obesity rates of our children continue to rise and have been increasing dramatically for over 40 years. The rising health concerns coupled with alarming increases in health care expenditures …
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Medication Expenditure and Resource Utilization Among Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders: Analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data
… the national prevalence and direct incremental expenditures of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD's) using the 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data.</p><p> Methods: A retrospective database analysis was conducted and individuals with MSD's (ICD-9-CM codes 274.00; 710.00-738.00) were …
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Health Care Resource Utilization and Expenditures in Persons with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
… kidney disease (ADPKD), to determine all-cause health care resource utilization and all-cause health care expenditures, to determine incremental health care resource utilization, and to determine incremental health care expenditures associated with ADPKD. An observational database analysis of a …
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An analytics approach to problems in health care
Health care expenditures in the United States have been increasing at unsustainable rates for more than thirty years with no signs of abating. Decisions to accept or reject deceased-donor kidneys offered to patients on the kidney transplantation wait-list currently rely on physician experience and …
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Essays on health care consumption and household finance
This thesis explores how health insurance affects the decisions that individuals make. The first chapter studies the effect of insurance on health care consumption. Nearly 10 percent of teenagers become ineligible for their families' health insurance coverage on their nineteenth birthdays. Due to …
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Implementation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in San Francisco
… disease has emerged as the predominant public health challenge of the 21st century. Chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes and obesity have maintained their top positions as the leading causes of poor health, disability, death, and high health-care expenditures …
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A Study of the Health Beliefs and Barriers to Care For the Medicaid Population
Despite the cost-reducing efforts of managed care, health care expenditures in the United States continue to be burdensome, resulting in services being cut to control costs, thus impacting all health care recipients. The patient population that often utilizes the health care system in a more …
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The Prediabetes Detection and Physical Activity Intervention Delivery (PRE-PAID) Project
… counter T2D. Given the potential for alleviating health care expenditures through the prevention or delay of T2D, targeting individuals with prediabetes using physical activity intervention is a critical research question. The aim of this project was to; i) identify persons with prediabetes and …
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Essays in public finance
… the employee portion of employer-provided health insurance premiums. In Chapter 3, joint with Jonathan Gruber, we study an example of such subsidies: the introduction of pre-tax premiums for postal employees in 1994, and then for the remaining federal employees in 2000. We find that there …
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Three empirical essays on micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship promotion in developing countries
… and the firm, and assess whether extending health insurance to previously uninsured households leads to increased investment in productive activities, by assessing the impact of a large national health insurance scheme, the Mexican Seguro Popular, on investment in productive agricultural and …
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Impacts of Increased Home Care Investments on Health System Service Utilization
Introduction: A Canadian home care performance measurement framework does not exist. This research examined the impact of Federal and Provincial investments in home care programs in Alberta. We identified the need for financially focused home care system indicators, refined indicators through a …
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Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center
… the condition and increased risk of additional health problems. Health care expenditures in the United States were reportedly 1.7 trillion in 2003 (Smithetal.,2005) and exceeded" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; line-height: 0; font-size: 16.66px; …
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