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High out‑of‑pocket spending and financial hardship at the end of life among cancer survivors and their families

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2023
Cancer is one of the most expensive medical conditions to treat worldwide, affecting national and local spending, as well as household budgets for patients and their families.
Jingxuan Zhao, K. Robin Yabroff
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Population-Based Estimates for the Prevalence of Multiple Sclerosis in the United States by Race, Ethnicity, Age, Sex, and Geographic Region

JAMA Neurology, 2023
This cohort study analyzes data from representative private, military, and public health insurance data sets to calculate the national prevalence of multiple sclerosis among Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White individuals in the United ...
Michael Hittle, W. Culpepper, A. Langer-Gould, R. Marrie, G. Cutter, W. Kaye, L. Wagner, B. Topol, N. LaRocca, Lorene M. Nelson, M. Wallin   +10 more
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Distinguishing moral hazard from access for high-cost healthcare under insurance.

PLoS ONE, 2020
ContextHealth policy has long been preoccupied with the problem that health insurance stimulates spending ("moral hazard"). However, much health spending is costly healthcare that uninsured individuals could not otherwise access.
Christopher T Robertson, Andy Yuan, Wendan Zhang, Keith Joiner   +3 more
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Disease burden of prostate cancer from 2014 to 2019 in the United States: estimation from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 and Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2023
OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the disease burden of prostate cancer (PC) and assess key influencing factors associated with the disease expenditures of PC in the United States.
Shen Lin, Dong Lin, Yiyuan Li, Lixian Zhong, Wei Zhou, Yajing Wu, Chen Xie, Shaohong Luo, Xiaoting Huang, Xiongwei Xu, Xiuhua Weng   +10 more
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Up-to-Date Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Use in the United States, 2021

Preventing Chronic Disease, 2023
Introduction We examined national estimates of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test use and compared them with Healthy People 2030 national targets. Test use in 2021 was compared with prepandemic estimates.
S. Sabatino, Trevor D. Thompson, Mary C. White, Maria A. Villarroel, J. Shapiro, Jennifer M. Croswell, L. Richardson   +6 more
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Health, Wellness and Wellbeing

Revue Interventions Économiques, 2019
A population’s health is contributed to by many factors outside of the clinical setting. American literature and research are asserting the Social Determinants of Health, while terms like wellness and wellbeing are also important.
Max Albert Holdsworth
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Selection on moral hazard in health insurance [PDF]

, 2012
We use employee-level panel data from a single rm to explore the possibility that individuals may select insurance coverage in part based on their anticipated behavioral ( moral hazard ) response to insurance, a phenomenon we label selection on moral
Amy Finkelstein, Arrow Kenneth, Einav Liran, Liran Einav, Manning Willard, Mark R Cullen, Paul Schrimpf, Pauly Mark, Stephen P Ryan   +8 more
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The Association Between Health Insurance and Opioid Misuse in Pregnancy

Journal of Scientific Innovation in Medicine, 2020
We sought to evaluate the association between insurance type and non-medical opioid use in pregnant women in the United States. We conducted a study in women aged 12 to 49 years using the 2005–2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
Paula Trepman, Melissa Villars, Yu-Ting Chang, Zohn Rosen   +3 more
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States’ racial resentment correlates with administrative distancing and lower rates of health plan selection in affordable care act marketplaces: a cross sectional analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background In the United States, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) pursued equity in healthcare access and treatment, but ACA implementation varied, especially limiting African Americans’ gains. Marketplaces for subsidized purchase of coverage were sometimes
Lonnie R Snowden, Genevieve Graaf
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Disparities in accessing infertility care in the United States: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-16.

Fertility and Sterility, 2018
OBJECTIVE To investigate infertility rates and access to infertility care among women in the United States. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional. SETTING Not applicable.
A. S. Kelley, Yongmei Qin, E. Marsh, J. Dupree   +3 more
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