Healthcare Spending Overshoots a Threat to Sustainability

Anthropogenic pollutants: a threat to ecosystem sustainability?

Pollutants, including synthetic organic materials and heavy metals, are known to adversely affect physiological systems in all animal species studied to date. While many individual chemicals can perturb normal functions, the combined actions of multiple pollutants are of particular concern because they can exert effects even when each individual chemical is present at concentrations too low to ...

Patient cost-sharing and healthcare spending growth.

In this paper, we explore the role patient incentives play in slowing healthcare spending growth. Evidence suggests that while patients do indeed respond to financial incentives, cost-sharing does not uniformly improve value; rather, cost-sharing provisions must be deliberately structured and targeted to reduce care of low marginal value. Other mechanisms may be helpful in targeting particular ...

Optimal Healthcare Spending with Redistributive Financing

Erratum to: Addressing multimorbidity to improve healthcare and economic sustainability

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.15256/joc.2016.6.74.].

Determinants of healthcare spending: a state level analysis

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