Health Care

Health Expenditures

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.

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Abstract

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.

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Synonyms

45 entry terms
  • Expenditures, Health
  • Health Expenditure
  • Expenditure, Health
  • Expenditure
  • Expenditures
  • Expenditures, Direct
  • Expenditures, Indirect
  • Expenditures, Out-of-Pocket
  • Out Of Pocket Expenditure
  • Out-of Pocket Expenditures
  • Out-of-Pocket Cost
  • Out-of-Pocket Costs
  • Out-of-Pocket Expense
  • Out-of-Pocket Expenses
  • Out-of-Pocket Payment
  • Out-of-Pocket Payments
  • Out-of-Pocket Spending
  • Cost, Out-of-Pocket
  • Costs, Out-of-Pocket
  • Direct Expenditure
  • Direct Expenditures
  • Expenditure, Direct
  • Expenditure, Indirect
  • Expenditure, Out-of Pocket
  • Expenditure, Out-of-Pocket
  • Expenditures, Out of Pocket
  • Expenditures, Out-of Pocket
  • Expense, Out-of-Pocket
  • Expenses, Out-of-Pocket
  • Indirect Expenditure
  • Indirect Expenditures
  • Out of Pocket Cost
  • Out of Pocket Costs
  • Out of Pocket Expenditures
  • Out of Pocket Expense
  • Out of Pocket Expenses
  • Out of Pocket Payment
  • Out of Pocket Payments
  • Out of Pocket Spending
  • Out-of Pocket Expenditure
  • Out-of-Pocket Expenditure
  • Out-of-Pocket Expenditures
  • Payment, Out-of-Pocket
  • Payments, Out-of-Pocket
  • Spending, Out-of-Pocket

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Aspects Covered

7 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

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)

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History Note

1992; was EXPENDITURES, HEALTH 1968-1991

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Previous Indexing

  • Economics (1966-1967)
  • Economics, Medical (1966-1967)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Health Expenditures. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005102. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005102
  2. Health Expenditures. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_expenditure
  3. Health Expenditures. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11404676