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Time to death and health expenditure: an improved model for the impact of demographic change on health care costs

Author(s) -

Meena Seshamani

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afh187

Subject(s) - life expectancy , postponement , demographic change , per capita , medicine , projections of population growth , health care , population ageing , demography , mortality rate , population , retirement age , population projection , gerontology , demographic economics , developed country , environmental health , population growth , economics , operations management , economic growth , pension , finance , sociology

Obtaining well-founded estimates of the effect of demographic change on future health expenditures is a pressing issue in all developed countries. Thus far, expenditure projections have examined the effect of age on health care costs, but fail to account for the influence of remaining life expectancy on costs.

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