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PMID: 22526849 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The impact of a longer life on future health care expenditures will be quite moderate because of the high costs of dying and the compression of mortality in old age. If not age per se but proximity to death determines the bulk of expenditures, a shift in the mortality risk to higher ages will not significantly affect lifetime health care expenditures, as death occurs only once in every life. A calculation of the demographic effect on health care expenditures in Germany up until 2050 that explicitly accounts for costs in the last years of life leads to a significantly lower demographic impact on per-capita expenditures than a calculation based on crude age-specific health expenditures. |
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Authors:
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S Felder |
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Type: English Abstract; Journal Article |
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Title: Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz Volume: 55 ISSN: 1437-1588 ISO Abbreviation: Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz Publication Date: 2012 May |
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Created Date: 2012-04-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101181368 Medline TA: Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz Country: Germany |
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Languages: ger Pagination: 614-23 Citation Subset: IM |
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Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Abteilung Health Economics, Universität Basel, Postfach, 4002, Basel, Schweiz, stefan.felder@unibas.ch. |
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Gesundheitsausgaben und demografischer Wandel. |
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