How much does the government spend on substance abuse treatment?
Aug 25, 2005 · Ellen Meara, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA, E-mail: [email protected] Search for more papers by this author Richard G. Frank ,
What are the most important sources of federal funding for addiction treatment?
Results: In 1997, only $11.9 billion of the $294 billion estimated social costs of substance abuse was spent on treatment. The discrepancy between the high indirect costs of illness relative to the level of spending on treatment of addictive disorders leads many to believe that the United States spends too little on treatment.
What is the social cost of substance abuse?
Aug 25, 2005 · Ellen Meara, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA, E‐mail: [email protected] Search for more papers by this author
How does spending on healthcare affect the economic burden of disease?
Sep 01, 2005 · Spending on substance abuse treatment: how much is enough? Meara, Ellen; Frank, Richard G. 2005-09-01 00:00:00 INTRODUCTION Studies of the burden of substance abuse (SA) reveal that direct costs associated with treatment of substance use disorders in the United States comprise a small fraction of the total social costs of illness [ 1,2 ]. In ...
Is Medicare spending higher after 65?
Medicare spending after age 65 years may be higher for previously uninsured adults if suboptimal care before this age leads to irreversible complications, persistently elevated clinical risks, or delay of costly elective procedures. To compare Medicare spending for previously uninsured and insured adults by using Medicare claims data. Longitudinal...
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What are the three methods of estimating racial disparities?
Three methods were presented (propensity score, rank and replace , and a combined method) that adjust for health status while allowing SES variables to mediate the relationship between race...
Is uninsured near-elderly people at risk for adverse health outcomes?
Uninsured near-elderly people may be particularly at risk for adverse health outcomes. We compared mortality of a nationally representative cohort of insured and uninsured near-elderly people with stratification by race; income; and the presence of diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease, using propensity-score methods to adjust for numerous chara...
What is HRS in health care?
As a nationally representative cohort of middle-aged and elderly adults with longitudinal data spanning nearly two decades, the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is an important resource for researchers studying the dynamics of health insurance coverage in the United States and the relation of insurance coverage to the use of health services and to ...