above Switzerland, which ranks second with 12.2% healthcare spending by GDP. The problem? While Switzerland consistently ranks as having one of the best healthcare systems in the world, the U.S. lags behind—which means that expenditures are not always translating into better health outcomes for...
Cash Payments Made by Families for Medical and Pharmaceutical SupportHealthcarePharmaceutical CareThe aim: conducting a comparative analysis of the dynamics of changes in health expenditures (%) from GDP and cash payments of families for medical and pharmace...
Using full population healthcare expenditures from Danish registries, we estimate lifetime healthcare expenditures as age-specific mean healthcare expenditures times the probability of being alive at each age. Our data enables the estimation of lifetime healthcare expenditures by sex, socioeconomic statu...
Therefore, people with a low income and persons living alone are expected to have higher healthcare expenditures. Besides these individual characteristics healthcare expenditure may be influenced by country of birth. This study therefore aimed to investigate the role of country of birth in explaining ...
According to Worldbank health spending includes expenditures with regards to healthcare services and goods. The spending refers to current spending of both governments and consumers.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and ...
Egede LE, Zheng D, Simpson K: Comorbid depression is associated with increased health care use and expenditures in individuals with diabetes. Diabetes Care 25(3):464–470, 2002. Article PubMed Google Scholar Ciechanowski PS, Katon WJ, Russo JE: Depression and diabetes: Impact of depressive ...
Numerous studies examine catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE) worldwide on whole populations rather than specific vulnerable groups. As hypertension and other chronic conditions impose a growing share of the disease burden in China, they will become an increasingly important component of CHE. This...
Hospital care accounts for a significant portion of the nation’s healthcare costs. Expenditures in this category are projected to grow 5.7%. This figure includes COVID-19 relief.2 Prices in the United States remain high for inpatient services compared to other countries, according to a report ...
Hospital care accounts for a significant portion of the nation’s healthcare costs. Expenditures in this category are projected to grow 5.7%. This figure includes COVID-19 relief.2 Prices in the United States remain high for inpatient services compared to other countries, according to a report ...
Generally, two thresholds are widely used to define CHE: ① out-of-pocket healthcare payments (OOP) that comprise ≥10% of total household expenditures [20–23]; and ② out-of-pocket healthcare payments that comprise ≥40% of nonfood household expenditures [24–27]. By deducting food ...