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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Economics > Costs and Cost Analysis > Health Expenditures
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Economics > Costs and Cost Analysis > Health Expenditures
Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Patient Care Management > Delivery of Health Care > Health Expenditures
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Delivery of Health Care > Health Expenditures

Preferred term

Health Expenditures  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Expenditures, Health
  • Health Expenditure

Note

  • amount spent for health care: do not confuse with HEALTH CARE COSTS (actual costs of providing care) or with FEES AND CHARGES (amount charged regardless of cost)

Scope note

  • The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.

History note

  • 92; was EXPENDITURES, HEALTH 1968-91

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005102

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