Changing Health-Related Behaviors 2: On Improving the Value of Health Spending
| Autor: | Robert C. H. Wilson, Patrick S. Parfrey, Owen Parfrey, Karen Dickson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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education.field_of_study
Public economics business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 010102 general mathematics Population 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Intervention (law) 0302 clinical medicine Health spending Value (economics) Health care Per capita Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine Social determinants of health 0101 mathematics business education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Methods in Molecular Biology ISBN: 9781071611371 |
| Popis: | The quantity of health spending does not equate directly to the quality of healthcare. Social spending and nonmedical determinants of health impact on health outcomes. The value of health spending in the United States is limited by the high cost of goods and labor, and administrative costs, high use of low-level care, and lack of basic healthcare coverage in a substantial minority of the population. There are additional reasons for differences in the value of health spending as revealed by a comparison of Canada and Australia, where similar spending per capita results in better health system performance in Australia than in Canada. Within Canada, there are large differences between provinces in the value of health spending. Overutilization of health resources occurs when an intervention is not indicated, or of low value, or is provided at the wrong time. The Choosing Wisely Initiative is a solution for overutilization of low-value care. Recognition of the reality that effective treatments are often applied inconsistently and inappropriately has spurred the development of a science concerned with improvement of quality of care. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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