Medical care economic risk : : measuring financial vulnerability from spending on medical care / / Panel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure ; Michael J. O'Grady and Gooloo S. Wunderlich, editors ; Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and Board on Health Care Services ; Institute of Medicine ; National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
"The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, and many others with insurance are nonetheless exposed to financial risk because of high premiums...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Washington, District of Columbia : : National Academies Press,, [2012] 2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (311 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Review and recommendations (Introduction
- Concepts of medical care economic burden and risk
- Concepts of resources
- Measures of medical care economic risk and recommended approach
- Data sources
- Implementing measures of medical care economic burden and risk)
- Resources for the study: developing a measure of medical care economic risk-workshop summary (Introduction
- Context for the workshop
- Measuring medical care economic risk
- Issues in the development of thresholds
- issues in defining resources
- Implementation issues
- Recap of issues and next steps)
- Resources for the study: background papers (Conceptual framework for measuring medical care ecnomic risk
- Incorporating data on assets into measures of financial burdens of health
- An assessment of data sources for measuring medical care economic risk).