Background A growing number of studies have investigated the effect of increasing
temperatures on morbidity and health service use. However, there is a lack of studies …

Rationale: Respiratory conditions account for a large proportion of health care spending in
the United States. A full characterization of spending across multiple conditions and over …

A população mundial vem experimentando um processo gradativo de envelhecimento de
sua estrutura etária, em função da queda acentuada da fecundidade e da mortalidade nas …

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in diabetes-related preventable hospitalization costs and
to determine the contribution of each underlying factor to these changes. RESEARCH …

This book provides an accessible guide to price index and hedonic techniques, with a focus
on how to best apply these techniques and interpret the resulting measures. One goal of this …

Background Decomposing health care spending by disease, type of care, age, and sex can
lead to a better understanding of the drivers of health care spending. But the lack of …

Researchers have disagreed about factors driving up health care spending since the 1980s.
One camp, led by Kenneth Thorpe, identifies rising numbers of people being treated for …

Despite the claim that technology has been one of the most important drivers of healthcare
spending growth over the past decades, technology variables are rarely introduced explicitly …

In Switzerland, per capita health care costs vary substantially from canton to canton and rise
considerably and steadily from year to year. Since costs are equal to the product of …

Abstract Background South Korea operates two different national insurance systems: health
care insurance covers medical services and long-term care (LTC) insurance covers …