Public spending on healthcare has increased significantly over the past five years. One way to assess the benefits of such spending is to look at how well trusts can convert the increased resources into improved healthcare outcomes. This article reviews a number of suggested approaches to measuring performance in the UK’s NHS and provides an illustrative analysis of the efficiency of the so-cal...

INTRODUCTION We sought to characterize changes in healthcare spending associated with the onset of 22 endometriosis-related comorbidities. METHODS Women aged 18-49 years with endometriosis (N = 180,278) were extracted from 2006-2015 de-identified Clinformatics® DataMart claims data. For 22 comorbidities, comorbidity patients were identified on the basis of having a first comorbidity diagnosis...

Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of disability in the United States and results in $20.6 billion in annual direct medical spending, with ≈700 000 ischemic strokes yearly. Despite advances in stroke prevention and treatment, deficits persist in healthcare value (defined as improved population health and patient experience at lower per-capita cost). Initiatives including the American He...

American healthcare is the most expensive in the world, yet its system still struggles with uneven quality, serious access gaps, and population health indicators that lag behind most of the developed world. Healthcare is becoming increasingly unaffordable for a growing segment of Americans, and if recent spending trends persist, the system could collapse under its own weight. Congressional prop...

This paper econometrically analyzes the relationship between public spending and gendered urban employment in China for the period 1999-2009. Proponents of gender-sensitive public policies suggest that spending on healthcare and education may increase long-run growth and women’s relative employment via the expansion of paid care work (increasing labor demand) and reductions in unpaid labor (inc...