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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 This study examines the short run, long run, and causal relationships among financial liberalization, healthcare expenditures, and defense expenditures on sustainable development in Pakistan covering the period from 1971 to 2017.
Li Meiling +4 more
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Household catastrophic health expenditure.
Iranian journal of public health, 2011 Fairness in financial contribution for health was determined by WHO (World Health Report, 2000) as the third goal of health systems which is measured by fairness in financial contribution index (FFCI). The aim of this study was to estimate FFCI and quantify extent of catastrophic household heath expenditures.We conducted a descriptive study during May ...
A Daneshkohan +3 more
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Association of body mass index with health care expenditures in the United States by age and sex
PLoS ONE, 2021 Background Estimates of health care costs associated with excess weight are needed to inform the development of cost-effective obesity prevention efforts. However, commonly used cost estimates are not sensitive to changes in weight across the entire body
Zachary J. Ward +3 more
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Machine learning approaches for predicting high cost high need patient expenditures in health care
BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2018 Background This paper studies the temporal consistency of health care expenditures in a large state Medicaid program. Predictive machine learning models were used to forecast the expenditures, especially for the high-cost, high-need (HCHN) patients ...
Chengliang Yang +3 more
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Exploring dynamics in catastrophic health care expenditure in Nigeria
Health Economics Review, 2022 Background The Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme aimed at making health care accessible and affordable since it’s became operational in 2005. However, many Nigerians still pay out of pocket for medical expenses, and this drive them to incurring ...
Henry C. Edeh
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Workplace wellness program and short-term changes in health care expenditures
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019 Workplace wellness programs are commonly offered by employers with the expectation that they will reduce health care costs. We previously reported that Be Fit, a 10-week wellness program offered to employees of a large teaching hospital and geared ...
Douglas E. Levy, Anne N. Thorndike
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Environmental pollution, rapid economic growth, and other social factors have adverse effects on public health, which have consequently increased the burden of health expenditures during the last two decades.
M. Usman +4 more
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Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2020 Background: The rate of substitution for private and public health expenditures is one of the factors that can explain the different effects of public and private health expenditures on health and life expectancy. Therefore, the purpose of this study was
mahdi shahraki, simin ghaderi
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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: Environmental pollution seriously damages not only the ecosystem but also the well-being of residents. There is an association between air pollution and residential health expenditures.
Yuhui DAI +3 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 National and global health policies are increasingly recognizing the key role of the environment in human health development, which is related to its economic and social determinants, such as income level, technical progress, education, quality of jobs ...
D. Badulescu +3 more
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