Mike-
You might want to see the lead paper ("Ageing of Population and Health
Care Expenditure: A Red Herring?) by Prof. Peter Zweifel (University of
Zurich) and colleagues, in the journal HEALTH ECONOMICS, vol. 8, #6
(Sep. 1999): 485-496. It contains informative literature review on this
issue, and their own findings contradicting this widely claimed
phenomenon in the future, ...
A comment on the 'endogeneity of remaining life expectancy' (by C. Salas
and J.P. Raftey) and a reply (by Zweifel, Felder and Meier) recently
appeared in HEALTH ECONOMICS,, vol. 10, #7 (October 2001): 669-674.
ALSO, run through "THE" HANDBOOK OF HEALTH ECONOMICS (vols. 1 and 2),
Co-Edited by Profs. Tony Culyer (York) and Joseph Newhouse (Harvard),
published by North-Holland, 2000.
Goods luck on your search,
Albert Okunade
Prof. Albert A. Okunade
Department of Economics, Rm. 450BB
The FCBE
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
tel: (901) 678-2672; fax: (901) 678-2685
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chambers, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2002 8:25 am
Subject: Request: healthcare costs in last months of life
> Dear colleagues,
>
> It is often asserted that 'x% of healthcare expenditure is used in
> caringfor people in the last y months of their lives'.
> For example I have recently seen quoted 95% in last 18 months (US)
> and 75%
> in last 12 months (UK).
> Can anybody help me locate sources for such assertions?
> I will feed back a summary or responses (if any) to the list.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mike Chambers
>
> Health Economics, Amersham Health, UK
> tel. +44 (0)1494-798683
>
>
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