scholarly journals Reversing the Negative Genomic Effects of Aging with Short-Term Calorie Restriction

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 544-546
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Spindler
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Health Care Spending ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Government ◽  
Effects Of Aging ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
The U.S

According to government figures, total health care spending in the U.S. in 1999 was $1.316 trillion. The government projects an increase in health care costs to $2.176 trillion by 2008. If we project this growth rate to 2020, health care costs will reach $4.009 trillion. Today, people often spend more health care dollars during the last year of their lives than in all previous years combined. Medical treatment in the last few years of life is usually very expensive and often futile. With the baby-boom generation now moving through middle age, the prescription for the U.S. health care system will be disastrous unless we learn how to keep people healthier longer. This dramatic increase in health care costs leaves us with only one acceptable alternative to rationed health care or financial ruin — to discover interventions that make people functionally younger, healthier, and less susceptible to debilitating, age-related diseases.

Paying for Prevention: A Critical Opportunity for Public Health

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. 69-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean C. O’Connor ◽  
Bruce J. Gutelius ◽  
Karen E. Girard ◽  
Danna Drum Hastings ◽  
Luci Longoria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Health Care Spending ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
The U.S

Despite spending more on health care than every other industrialized country, the U.S. ranks 37th in health outcomes. These differences cannot be explained away with differences in age and income, or even with quality of care. And, the rate of growth in health care spending in the U.S. continues to increase. The share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) attributable to health care grew from 9% in 1980 to more than 17% in 2011. Health care costs are projected to account for more than one-fifth of our economy by 2021. Despite spending more and more, the U.S. does not have better health outcomes than other countries. Worse, our increasing spending is largely attributable to preventable conditions. More than 85 cents of every dollar spent on health in the U.S. are spent on the treatment and management of chronic diseases, such as those caused by preventable conditions related to obesity and tobacco use.

scholarly journals Synergism in Technology Assessment

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-479
Author(s):  
Ted R. Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
Patent Office ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
The U.S

In 1899, Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, urged President McKinley to abolish the Patent Office by saying, “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Fortunately for the health care industry, there have been more significant “medical inventions” in the 89 years following Duell's utterance than in all of recorded history preceding it.There is now a crisis in medical technology, and it has not been caused by a lack of ideas from innovative clinicians, inventors, and scientists. Instead, it is a result of sincere, but often spasmodic, efforts to control health care costs, which in the minds of many observers threaten the national economy, if not the country's survival.

scholarly journals Effect of Two Major Health Reforms on Health Care Cost and Utilization in Fars Province of Iran: Family Physician Program and Health Transformation Plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Bayati ◽  
Khosro Keshavarz ◽  
Farhad Lotfi ◽  
Abbas KebriaeeZadeh ◽  
Omid Barati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Fars Province ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Utilization Of Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Care Costs

Abstract Background: Family physician program (FPP) and health transformation plan (HTP) are two major reforms that have been implemented in Iran's health system in recent. The present study was aimed at evaluating the impact of these two reforms on the level of service utilization and cost of health care services. Methods: This longitudinal study was conducted on people insured by social security organization in Fars province during 2009-2016. The data on the utilization of services and costs of general practitioner visits, specialist visits, medications, imaging, laboratory tests, and hospitalization were collected. Interrupted time series analysis was used to analyze the effect of the two mentioned reforms. Results: FPP resulted in a significant reduction in the number of specialist visits, imaging, and laboratory tests in the short term, and in the number of radiology services, laboratory tests, and hospitalization in the long term. In contrast, HTP significantly increased the utilization of radiology services and laboratory tests both in the short term and long term. Concerning the costs, FPP resulted in a reduction in costs in short and long term except general practitioners' and specialist visit, and medication in long term. However, HTP resulted in an increase in health care costs in both of the studied time periods. Conclusions: FPP has been successful in rationalizing the utilization of services. On the other hand, HTP has improved people’s access to services by increasing the utilization; but it has increased health care costs. Therefore, policymakers must adopt an agenda to revise and re-design the plan.

On-Site Clinics

2016 ◽  
pp. 213-232
Author(s):  
Robert Yehl ◽  
Mary Eleanor Wickersham ◽  
Virginia B. Sizemore
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Employee Health ◽  
Fiscal Constraints ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
The U.S

With the continued rising cost of health insurance and the fiscal constraints as a result of the 2007-09 economic recession requiring local governments in the U.S. to make cuts in employees, services, and benefits, it appears that on-site health clinics are one method of reducing, or at least, slowing health care costs. This chapter analyzes the use and benefits of such clinics for local government managers that is a new, but potentially effective method of both controlling costs and improving employee health.

Attempts to control dental health care costs: The U.S. experience

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 767-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen C. Gift ◽  
John F. Newman ◽  
Sheldon B. Loewy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Dental Health Care ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
The U.S

Forgone Medical Care Associated With Increased Health Care Costs Among the U.S. Heart Failure Population

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Thomas ◽  
Javier Valero-Elizondo ◽  
Rohan Khera ◽  
Haider J. Warraich ◽  
Samuel W. Reinhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals PD15-12 HEALTH CARE SPENDING IN HIGH RESOURCE PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS: WHAT CONTRIBUTES MOST TO HIGH PROSTATE CANCER HEALTH CARE COSTS?

2019 ◽  
Vol 201 (Supplement 4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine Sun* ◽  
Maya Marchese ◽  
David Fallon Friedlander ◽  
Alexander Putnam Cole ◽  
Sean Anthony Fletcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Health Care Spending ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Care Costs

scholarly journals Effect of Two Major Health Reforms on Health Care Cost and Utilization in Fars Province of Iran: Family Physician Program and Health Transformation Plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Bayati ◽  
Khosro Keshavarz ◽  
Farhad Lotfi ◽  
Abbas KebriaeeZadeh ◽  
Omid Barati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Fars Province ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Utilization Of Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Care Costs

Abstract Background: Family physician program (FPP) and health transformation plan (HTP) are two major reforms that have been implemented in Iran's health system in recent. The present study was aimed at evaluating the impact of these two reforms on the level of service utilization and cost of health care services. Methods: This longitudinal study was conducted on people insured by social security organization in Fars province during 2009-2016. The data on the utilization of services and costs of general practitioner visits, specialist visits, medications, imaging, laboratory tests, and hospitalization were collected. Interrupted time series analysis was used to analyze the effect of the two mentioned reforms. Results: FPP resulted in a significant reduction in the number of specialist visits, imaging, and laboratory tests in the short term, and in the number of radiology services, laboratory tests, and hospitalization in the long term. In contrast, HTP significantly increased the utilization of radiology services and laboratory tests both in the short term and long term. Concerning the costs, FPP resulted in a reduction in costs in short and long term except general practitioners' and specialist visit, and medication in long term. However, HTP resulted in an increase in health care costs in both of the studied time periods. Conclusions: FPP has been successful in rationalizing the utilization of services. On the other hand, HTP has improved people’s access to services by increasing the utilization; but it has increased health care costs. Therefore, policymakers must adopt an agenda to revise and re-design the plan.

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