Download or read book The Utilization of Health Services Indices and Correlates written by Lu Ann Aday and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Utilization of Health Services written by National Center for Health Services Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Utilization of Health Services written by Lu Ann Aday and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Services Utilization in the U S Population by Health Insurance Coverage written by Steven A. Garfinkel and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Variation in Health Care Spending written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. Increasing costs strain budgets at all levels of government and threaten the solvency of Medicare, the nation's largest health insurer. At the same time, despite advances in biomedical science, medicine, and public health, health care quality remains inconsistent. In fact, underuse, misuse, and overuse of various services often put patients in danger. Many efforts to improve this situation are focused on Medicare, which mainly pays practitioners on a fee-for-service basis and hospitals on a diagnoses-related group basis, which is a fee for a group of services related to a particular diagnosis. Research has long shown that Medicare spending varies greatly in different regions of the country even when expenditures are adjusted for variation in the costs of doing business, meaning that certain regions have much higher volume and/or intensity of services than others. Further, regions that deliver more services do not appear to achieve better health outcomes than those that deliver less. Variation in Health Care Spending investigates geographic variation in health care spending and quality for Medicare beneficiaries as well as other populations, and analyzes Medicare payment policies that could encourage high-value care. This report concludes that regional differences in Medicare and commercial health care spending and use are real and persist over time. Furthermore, there is much variation within geographic areas, no matter how broadly or narrowly these areas are defined. The report recommends against adoption of a geographically based value index for Medicare payments, because the majority of health care decisions are made at the provider or health care organization level, not by geographic units. Rather, to promote high value services from all providers, Medicare and Medicaid Services should continue to test payment reforms that offer incentives to providers to share clinical data, coordinate patient care, and assume some financial risk for the care of their patients. Medicare covers more than 47 million Americans, including 39 million people age 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities. Medicare payment reform has the potential to improve health, promote efficiency in the U.S. health care system, and reorient competition in the health care market around the value of services rather than the volume of services provided. The recommendations of Variation in Health Care Spending are designed to help Medicare and Medicaid Services encourage providers to efficiently manage the full range of care for their patients, thereby increasing the value of health care in the United States.

Download or read book UTILIZATION OF HEALTH SERVICES INDICES AND CORRELATES written by UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE. HEALTH SERVICES AND MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION. NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book UTILIZATION OF HEALTH SERVICES written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development of Indices of Access to Medical Care written by Lu Ann Aday and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Use of Health Services written by Cheryl A. Maurana and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 265 books and articles published between 1974 and 1981 on health services utilization are abstracted. This updates the 1972 DHEW publication under the same title.

Download or read book The Utilization of Health Services written by Lu Ann Aday and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.

Download or read book Health Care written by World Health Organization. International Collaborative Study of Medical Care Utilization and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison of health service utilization in seven countries in North America, Latin America and Europe - surveys health service systems, health behaviour, planning and research, predisposing factors (demographic aspects, education, household and family composition, etc.), and enabling factors (financial resources, social security, etc.), the use of hospitals, medicines, dentistry and ophthalmological services, etc. Two-page bibliography, diagrams, maps, references and statistical tables.

Download or read book The Utilization of Health Services Indicies and Correlates written by Lu Ann Aday and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Some Social Correlates of the Utilization of Medical Services written by Allan A. Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Retooling for an Aging America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.

Download or read book The Effect of Intraclass Correlation on Linear Regression of Health Services Utilization Data written by Robin A. Reynolds-Haertle and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.