Healthcare spending in America, in 2 graphs
The success of lobbyists partly explains why American spending on healthcare was worth17.2 per centof gross domestic product in 2016, according to the OECD. The second-highest figure was Switzerland’s 12.4 per cent; Britain came in at 9.7 per cent. “We’re somewhere close to the limit of...
Healthcare in America: Financially Subsidizing Cultural Competence in the Healthcare System Introduction Healthcare has always formed a fundamental aspect of any nation. In fact‚ the economic health of any nation can be determined by examining the healthcare sector. Unfortunately‚ many countries ...
"These indices are tracking the healthcare cost crisis in America and its impact on everyday Americans," said Tim Lash, President of West Health. "Bottom line—Americans are increasingly getting priced out of the system and many of those who can still afford to pay don't think they're get...
2 Healthcare in China: 'Entering uncharted waters' Franck Le Deu, Rajesh Parekh, Fangning Zhang, and Gaobo Zhou China's healthcare sector continues to develop at an astonishing rate. The nation's healthcare spending is projected to grow from $357 billion in ...
Growth in US healthcare spending is at slowest in 50 years Spending on health care in the United States grew by 4.4% in 2008, the lowest rate in the nearly 50 years since the federal government began tracking the f... Roehr,B. - 《Bmj British Medical Journal》 被引量: 2发表: 2010...
America is spending billions of dollars on school-based drug prevention programmes. But how effective is prevention? How much does it cut drug use? This is... Jonathan Caulkins,Susan Sohler Everingham,C. Rydell,... - RAND, 1700 Main St., P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138; ...
This synthesis of recent epidemiological and service use data concludes that, in aggregate, rising mental health spending since the early 1990s appear to b... Druss,G Benjamin - 《Health Affairs》 被引量: 89发表: 2006年 Teaching Tomorrow's College Science Courses--Are We Getting It Right? Di...
"Instead of taking people in a room, examining them, taking the history and spending the time talking to patients, we ... do all the complicated stuff," he added. "We're quick to jump to getting the CAT scan and diagnostic test when a history and physical exam would tell you the ans...
Although the U.S. leads industrialized nations in healthcare spending, it has worse health outcomes and a smaller percentage of the population is served. Now, the healthcare system is struggling even more under the double burden of the global pandemic and the loss of income from elective surger...