it can be difficult to get a clear view of the healthcare landscape in the U.S. Taking a look at the statistics generated from information collected by the Census Bureau and other organizations gives us an idea of what’s good about healthcare in our country, and what’s not ...
Health expenditures in the U.S. – statistics & facts Choose a region: United States The United States spends more on health care than any other country. Annual health expenditures stood at over 4.4 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022, and personal health care expenditure equaled 10,805 U.S. ...
Statistics Reports Insights Research AI New Daily Data Services Health, Pharma & Medtech› State of Health Veteran health in the U.S. - Statistics & Facts In 2022, there were over 16 million military veterans in the United States. Physical health, mental health, and health care servic...
Importance Health care spending in the United States is a major concern and is higher than in other high-income countries, but there is little evidence that efforts to reform US health care delivery have had a meaningful influence on controlling health care spending and costs. Objective To compar...
The signature domestic accomplishment of the Obama Administration thus far has been the enactment of health care reform in March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Whatever its consequences, PPACA is one of the most significant pieces of social policy legislation in the ...
Prices for drugs and healthcare are partially controlled by governments in other countries, while prices depend on market forces in the U.S. Healthcare in the United States The majority of Americans rely on private health insurance for coverage. Statistics show that 91.4% of the American populati...
The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for an outsized share of spending relative to health outcomes, which has led to uncertainties around politically driven reform of the industry. Understanding the Healthcare Sector The healthcare sector is one of the largest and most complex in the U.S. econ...
Health Care Policy and Statisticsdoi:10.1093/abm/10.4.144OxfordAnnals of Behavioral Medicine
Historically, lay midwives provided care to poor women in the US, particularly in the South, before there was a movement by physicians and nurses to restrict the practice of Black lay midwives.5Much of the nursing profession opposed the use of licensed midwives who are not nurses until the 19...
(2002), Making Sense of Statistics in Health Care by Anna Har, Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford, 2001, 162 pages, ISBN 1 857 75472 7. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 37: 311. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.2123a.x Author Information Media Reviews Editor Publication History Issue published ...