Counting backward to health care's future: using time-to-death modeling to identify changes in end-of-life morbidity and the impact of aging on health care expenditures.
Milbank Q
; 85(2): 213-57, 2007 Jun.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17517114
ABSTRACT
In most developed countries, as the largest population cohorts approach the age of sixty-five, the impact of population aging on health care expenditures has become a topic of growing interest. This articles examines trends in elderly disability and end-of-life morbidity, estimations of the cost of dying, and models of expenditures as a function of both age and time-to-death and finds broad improvement in mortality and morbidity among the elderly in the developed world. Reduced mortality and low growth in the costs associated with dying could reduce forecasted expenditures, but high growth in expenditures for those not close to death and for nonhospital services could create new economic pressures on health care systems.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Assistência Terminal
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Nível de Saúde
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Expectativa de Vida
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Gastos em Saúde
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Efeitos Psicossociais da Doença
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Serviços de Saúde para Idosos
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Milbank Q
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA SOCIAL
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SAUDE PUBLICA
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá