Food insecurity, health care utilization, and health care expenditures

Women's health care utilization and expenditures.

This study examines women's use and expenditures for medical care in the US. In 2000, 91% of women aged 18 years and older used any form of health care services. Overall, 82% of adult women reported an ambulatory care visit, and 11% had an inpatient hospital stay. Mean expense per person with expenses was 3219 dollars for that year. We examined use and expenditures by sociodemographic character...

A national profile of health care utilization and expenditures for children with special health care needs.

OBJECTIVES To provide the first nationally representative data on total health care expenses, out-of-pocket health care expenses, and information on the extent to which out-of-pocket expenses are financially burdensome for families of children with special health care needs (CSHCN). To also compare utilization and expenditure patterns for children with and without special health care needs. D...

Medicaid program characteristics: Effects on health care expenditures and utilization

Relationships between State Medicaid program characteristics and program outputs are analyzed in this statistical report, using 1980 cross-sectional data from a variety of sources. The year 1980 furnishes a baseline against which program changes following the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and the 1982 economic recession can be evaluated. Utilization and expenditures are modeled sepa...

Utilization and Expenditures for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Modelling health care expenditures

in Dutch De zorguitgaven in de industriële landen zijn de afgelopen veertig jaar sterk gegroeid. Deze sterke groei vormt een bedreiging voor de houdbaarheid van de publieke budgetten en veroorzaakt een toenemende belangstelling voor de determinanten van de zorguitgaven. Dit paper geeft ten eerste een up-to-date overzicht van de bestaande literatuur over zorguitgaven. Daarnaast beoogt dit paper ...