Medical care expenditure in suicides from non-illness causes

Medical Care Expenditure in Suicides From Non-illness-related Causes

OBJECTIVES Several epidemiological studies on medical care utilization prior to suicide have considered the motivation of suicide, but focused on the influence of physical illnesses. Medical care expenditure in suicide completers with non-illness-related causes has not been investigated. METHODS Suicides motivated by non-illness-related factors were identified using the investigator's note fr...

Illness, medical expenditure and household consumption: observations from Taiwan

BACKGROUND Illness conditions lead to medical expenditure. Even with various types of medical insurance, there can still be considerable out-of-pocket costs. Medical expenditure can affect other categories of household consumptions. The goal of this study is to provide an updated empirical description of the distributions of illness conditions and medical expenditure and their associations with...

Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth

Medical-care expenditures have been rising rapidly, accounting for almost one…fth of GDP in 2009. In this study, we assess the sources of the rising medical-care expenditures in the commercial sector. We employ a novel framework for decomposing expenditure growth into four components at the disease level: service price growth, service utilization growth, treated disease prevalence growth, and d...

Mortality from causes amenable and non-amenable to medical care: the experience of eastern Europe.

OBJECTIVE To investigate comparative national trends in mortality from conditions amenable to timely, appropriate medical care and from those considered not to be amenable to such care. DESIGN Analysis of trends in direct age standardised mortality from the 1950s to 1987. SETTING Four eastern European nations (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the German Democratic Republic) and two western ...

Better care, fewer suicides?