National Health Spending In 2014: Faster Growth Driven By Coverage Expansion And Prescription Drug Spending

Martin, Anne; Hartman, Micah; Benson, Joseph; Catlin, Aaron

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1194

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“…These health epidemics are currently having devastating effects on the world economy. In 2014 for example, skyrocketing health-care costs climbed to $3 trillion in the US alone (67). Worldwide, chronic diseases are estimated to be responsible for a $17.3 trillion cumulative economic loss between 2011 and 2030 due to health-care expenditures, reduced productivity, and lost capital (68).…”

Section: The Metabolic Phenomenonmentioning

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Overfat and Underfat: New Terms and Definitions Long Overdue

Maffetone¹,

Rivera-Dominguez²,

Laursen

2017

Front. Public Health

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For the first time in human history, the number of obese people worldwide now exceeds those who are underweight. However, it is possible that there is an even more serious problem—an overfat pandemic comprised of people who exhibit metabolic health impairments associated with excess fat mass relative to lean body mass. Many overfat individuals, however, are not necessarily classified clinically as overweight or obese, despite the common use of body mass index as the clinical classifier of obesity and overweight. The well-documented obesity epidemic may merely be the tip of the overfat iceberg. The counterpart to the overfat condition is the underfat state, also a common and dangerous health circumstance associated with chronic illness and starvation. Currently (and paradoxically), high rates of obesity and overweight development coexist with undernutrition in developing countries. Studies in cognitive linguistics suggest that accurate, useful, and unintimidating terminology regarding abnormal body fat conditions could help increase a person’s awareness of their situation, helping the process of implementing prevention and simple remedies. Our contention is that promoting the terms “overfat” and “underfat” to describe body composition states to the point where they enter into common usage may help in creating substantive improvements in world health.

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Section: The Metabolic Phenomenonmentioning

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Overfat and Underfat: New Terms and Definitions Long Overdue

Maffetone¹,

Rivera-Dominguez²,

Laursen

2017

Front. Public Health

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“…The main outcomes were the proportion of patients with Hospital costs were then adjusted for the annual inflation rate using CMS estimates and were expressed as annual means with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) in 2014 U.S. dollars (35). compared baseline characteristics.…”

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Life-Sustaining Procedures, Palliative Care, and Cost Trends in Dying COPD Patients in U.S. Hospitals: 2005~2014

Kim

Shen

et al. 2018

Korean J Hosp Palliat Care

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“…1 Spending on federal healthcare programs continues to grow significantly. 2 Regardless, the need to provide high-quality care continues.…”

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Recommendations for the Implementation of Telehealth in Cardiovascular and Stroke Care: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association

Schwamm¹,

Chumbler²,

Brown³

et al. 2017

Circulation

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ABSTRACT:The aim of this policy statement is to provide a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence evaluating the use of telemedicine in cardiovascular and stroke care and to provide consensus policy suggestions. We evaluate the effectiveness of telehealth in advancing healthcare quality, identify legal and regulatory barriers that impede telehealth adoption or delivery, propose steps to overcome these barriers, and identify areas for future research to ensure that telehealth continues to enhance the quality of cardiovascular and stroke care. The result of these efforts is designed to promote telehealth models that ensure better patient access to high-quality cardiovascular and stroke care while striving for optimal protection of patient safety and privacy. INTRODUCTION Telehealth: Opportunity to Reduce the Costs and Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and StrokeThe United States finds itself at a pivotal moment in the history of medicine when the annual growth in US healthcare spending increased to 5.3% in 2014, up from 2.9% in 2013, after 5 consecutive years of historically low growth.1 Spending on federal healthcare programs continues to grow significantly.2 Regardless, the need to provide high-quality care continues. More than 85 million Americans (≈26% of the US population) suffer from cardiovascular disease (CVD), and nearly 7 million (2.2%) are stroke survivors. CVD and stroke cost the US healthcare system more than $320 billion and $33 billion, respectively, each year, and by 2030, annual costs of CVD and stroke are projected to balloon to nearly $1 trillion.3 Now more than ever, strategies are needed to increase the value of health care by increasing the quality of care and lowering costs.Enhancing patient access to care via telehealth is an important strategy to help address this challenge. Telehealth, as defined by Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, comprises the use of telecommunications and information technologies to share information and to provide clinical care, education, public health, and administrative services at a distance. 4 Telehealth is a broad term that encompasses many digital health technologies, including telemedicine, eHealth, connected health, and mHealth. Telehealth is a new method of enabling care delivery that has the potential to help transform the healthcare system, to reduce costs, and to increase quality, patient-centeredness, and patient satisfaction. [5][6][7] In particular, telehealth may increase access and convenience for patients with CVD and stroke.8 This is especially true for vulnerable patients with CVD or stroke who, because of their geographical location, physical disability, advanced chronic disease, or difficulty with POLICY STATEMENTSsecuring transportation, may not otherwise access specialty healthcare services. 6,7 Yet, telehealth is underused for the management of CVD and stroke, and several barriers to the successful implementation of telehealth interventions for CVD and stroke exist, including cultural, financial, and legal or regulatory const...

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National Health Spending In 2014: Faster Growth Driven By Coverage Expansion And Prescription Drug Spending

Cited by 154 publications

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Overfat and Underfat: New Terms and Definitions Long Overdue

Overfat and Underfat: New Terms and Definitions Long Overdue

Life-Sustaining Procedures, Palliative Care, and Cost Trends in Dying COPD Patients in U.S. Hospitals: 2005~2014

Recommendations for the Implementation of Telehealth in Cardiovascular and Stroke Care: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association

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