Medical care economic risk : measuring financial vulnerability from spending on medical care /

"The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, and many others with insurance are nonetheless exposed to financial risk because of high premiums...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Panel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure (Autor), Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics
Otros Autores: O'Grady, Michael J., Wunderlich, Gooloo S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2012.
Temas:
Medical care, Cost of > Risk assessment > United States.
Medical care > Economic aspects > United States.
Poverty > United States.
Insurance > Economic aspects > United States.
Health insurance > Economic aspects > United States.
Health Expenditures > statistics & numerical data
Financing, Personal > economics
Cost of Illness
Deductibles and Coinsurance > economics
Soins médicaux > Coût > Évaluation du risque > États-Unis.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
Assurance > Aspect économique > États-Unis.
Coût de la maladie.
Économie de la santé > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Health insurance > Economic aspects
Insurance > Economic aspects
Medical economics
Poverty
United States
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Review and recommendations
  • Introduction
  • Concepts of medical care economic burden and risk
  • Concepts of resources
  • Measures of medical care economic risk and recommended approach
  • Data sources
  • Implementing measures of medical care economic burden and risk
  • Resources for the study: developing a measure of medical care economic risk: workshop summary
  • Introduction
  • Context for the workshop
  • Measuring medical care economic risk
  • Issues in the development of thresholds
  • Issues in defining resources
  • Implementation issues
  • Recap of issues and next steps
  • Resources for the study: background papers
  • Conceptual framework for measuring medical care economic risk / Sarah Meier and Barbara Wolfe
  • Incorporating data on assets into measures of financial burdens of health / Jessica S. Banthin and Didem Bernard
  • An assessment of data sources for measuring medical care economic risk / John l. Czajka.

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