Money and medicine

• Verfasst von: Getzen, Thomas E. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Money and medicine
• Titelzusatz: the evolution of national health expenditures
• Verf.angabe: Thomas E. Getzen
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xx, 334 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 293-322 und Index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-757326-6
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197573266.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (s)Medizin / (s)Gesundheitsausgaben / (s)Krankheitskosten / (z)Geschichte 1600-
• Schlagwörter: (s)Gesundheitsökonomie / (z)Geschichte 1600-
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Getzen, Thomas E: Money and medicine. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Getzen, Thomas E.: Money and Medicine. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022. - 1 online resource (361 pages)
• RVK-Notation: QX 700
• RVK-Notation: QX 100
• K10plus-PPN: 1813136335

Abstract

"This book frames the evolutionary path of medicine and provides a useful forecasting model. Tracing health spending from ancient times to the present with a single ratio, health expenditures as a share of income, reveals an s-shaped growth curve, rising rapidly after science made therapies more effective and more expensive, inflecting as the rate of expansion peaked with the coalescence of national health systems in the 1960s, and decelerating after 1975. Medicine became qualitatively different as it scaled up along therapeutic, organizational, financial, and moral dimensions. The development of health insurance and changes in the flow of funds made macro effects on total spending different from micro determinants of allocation. Institutional inertia and lags require a span of observation long enough to distinguish temporary fluctuations from shifts in trend."