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Health Care–Related Savings Accounts, Health Care Expenditures, and Tax Expenditures

JAMA Health Forum
ImportanceApproximately 30% of US families with employer-sponsored health insurance, disproportionately drawn from high-income groups, benefit from flexible spending accounts (FSAs) or health savings accounts (HSAs). The combined association through both out-of-pocket spending and premiums of these tax-favored accounts with health care expenditures and
Ding, Dong, Glied, Sherry
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Re‐Awakening Public Attention to the Silent Pandemic of Cancer Among Older Adults in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef, Sunkanmi Folorunsho, Abdulazeez Opeyemi Abdulganiyu   +2 more
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High health costs, Financial catastrophic and impoverishment expenditures: Concepts for policy formation

مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2015
Introduction: From a long time ago, policy makers in health sector have been attempting to protect sick people and their family against high health costs, and financial catastrophic and impoverishment expenditures. As its primary purpose, this study aims
Arashk Masaeli, Hossein Sadeghih, Ali Ghanbari   +2 more
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Analysis of the structure and trend prediction of China’s total health expenditure

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundIn the context of rapid economic and social development, there has been a continuous intensification of population aging, transformation of disease patterns, and wide application of new medical technologies.
Hong-yan Li, Rui-xue Zhang
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Is Taking a Pill a Day Good for Health Expenditures? Evidence from a Cross Section Time Series Analysis of 19 OECD Countries from 1970 – 2000 [PDF]

This paper differs in two ways from previous comparative health system research. First, it focuses on the impact of pharmaceutical expenditures on total health expenditures as trends in pharmaceutical expenditures have been blamed of being a major driver
Verbelen, Bart
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Functional Connectivity Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Minor Stroke

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Patients with minor stroke exhibit slowed processing speed and generalized alterations in functional connectivity involving frontoparietal cortex (FPC). The pattern of connectivity evolves over time. In this study, we examine the relationship of functional connectivity patterns to cognitive performance, to determine ...
Vrishab Commuri, Isabella Dallasta, Ciaran Stone, Sophia Girgenti, Neda Gould, Rafael H. Llinas, Jonathan Z. Simon, Elisabeth Breese Marsh   +7 more
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Modelling health care expenditures; overview of the literature and evidence from a panel time series model [PDF]

The first purpose of this paper is to give an up to date overview of the literature on health care expenditures. Secondly, this paper contributes to the existing literature by investigating the impact of several factors on health care expenditures in an ...
Esther Mot, P.H. Franses, Roel van Elk
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Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani, Lakshmi Pillai, Reid D. Landes, Aliyah Glover, Shannon Doerhoff, Jennifer Kleiner, Mitesh Lotia, Rohit Dhall, Edgar Garcia‐Rill   +8 more
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Endogenous Fertility in a Growth Model with Public and Private Health Expenditures [PDF]

We build an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility choices as well as public and private expenditures on health. We find that the complementary effect of public health services on private health expenditures can provide an additional ...
Dimitrios Varvarigos, Intan Zanariah Zakaria   +1 more
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Cutaneous Phosphorylated Alpha‐Synuclein in Lewy Body Dementia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the test performance of cutaneous phosphorylated alpha‐synuclein (P‐SYN) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), individuals with reduced Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and healthy controls. Methods This is the first subgroup analysis of the Synuclein‐One study, a prospective, blinded study evaluating P‐SYN detection ...
Christopher H. Gibbons, Todd Levine, Charles H. Adler, Bailey Bellaire, Ningshan Wang, Pinky Agarwal, Georgina M. Aldridge, Alexandru Barboi, Daniel Claassen, Virgilio G. H. Evidente, Douglas Galasko, Alejandra Gonzalez‐Duarte, Ramon Gil, Mark Gudesblatt, Stuart H. Isaacson, Horacio Kaufmann, Pravin Khemani, Rajeev Kumar, Guillaume Lamotte, Andy J. Liu, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Mitchell G. Miglis, Adam Reynolds, Gregory A. Sahagian, Marie‐Helene Saint‐Hilaire, Julie B. Schwartzbard, Wolfgang Singer, Michael J. Soileau, Steven Vernino, Patricio Millar Vernetti, Oleg Yerstein, Roy Freeman   +31 more
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