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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Panel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure (issuing body)
Autores Corporativos: Panel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure, issuing body (issuing body), National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services, issuing body
Otros Autores: O'Grady, Michael J. (Health policy expert), editor (editor), Wunderlich, Gooloo S., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press [2012]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Medical care, Cost of > Risk assessment > United States.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820312606719
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
  • Incorporating data on assets into measures of financial burdens of health
  • An assessment of data sources for measuring medical care economic risk).

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