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Ageing and changes in medical practices : reassessing theinfluence of demography [PDF]
On the basis of French individual data, this paper compares the effect of demographic change, changes in morbidity and changes in practices on the growth in health expenditures that occurred between 1992 and 2000.
Brigitte Dormont, Hélène Huber
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Modeling Health Care Expenditures and Use.
Annual Review of Public Health, 2018 Health care expenditures and use are challenging to model because these dependent variables typically have distributions that are skewed with a large mass at zero.
P. Deb, E. Norton
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The aim of this systematic review was to synthesize the economic impact of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on households, health systems, and society in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Methods Electronic databases such as PubMed, Web of Science, and CINAHL were searched using keywords related to RA and cost of illness.
Tadesse Gebrye +6 more
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Redistributing to the sick: How should health expenditures be integrated into the tax system? [PDF]
I study the optimal joint taxation of income and health expenditures in a model in which individuals face idiosyncratic prices for leisure and health. First-best redistribution based on potential wage rates and health status is not feasible.
Billy Jack
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the cost‐effectiveness of low‐dose colchicine prophylaxis for preventing gout flares when starting allopurinol using the “start‐low go‐slow” approach. Methods Participants with gout, fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology recommendations for starting urate‐lowering therapy and with serum urate
Yana Pryymachenko +4 more
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Public health and education spending in Ghana in 1992-98 : issues of equity and efficiency [PDF]
Using primary data from the health and education ministries, and household survey data from the Ghana Statistical Service, the authors analyze equity, and efficiency issues in public spending on health, and education in Ghana in the 1990s.
Canagarajah, Sudharshan, Xiao Ye
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Public Funds Account for Over 70 Percent of Health Care Spending in California [PDF]
, 2016 This policy brief examines public versus private health care expenditures in California. The authors find that personal health care expenditures are estimated to total more than $367 billion in 2016 and that approximately 71 percent of these ...
Andrea Sorensen +2 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We assessed whether circulating adipokines are associated with incident fractures in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods Three adipokines (adiponectin, leptin, and fibroblast growth factor [FGF]‐21) were measured using banked enrollment serum from participants in a longitudinal RA cohort.
Joshua F. Baker +9 more
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Health Care Services and Government Spending in Pakistan [PDF]
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial, both rural and urban level; using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-05, and by ...
Faheem Jehangir Khan, Muhammad Akram
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Impact of Positive Lifestyle Behaviors on Direct Health Care Cost Savings for Low Back Pain
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a previously purpose‐developed lifestyle behavior scale and health care cost savings related to low back pain (LBP). Methods This longitudinal study used data from the Australian Twin Back (AUTBACK) study. LBP and lifestyle behavior measures were collected at baseline. Physical activity
Ye Tian +8 more
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