Howdon, Daniel David Henry and Rice, Nigel orcid.org/0000-0003-0312-823X (2018) Health care expenditures, age, proximity to death and morbidity:implications for an ageing population. Journal of health economics. pp. 60-74. ISSN 0167-6296
Abstract
This paper uses Hospital Episode Statistics, English administrative data, to investigate the growth in admitted patient health care expenditures and the implications of an ageing population. We use two samples of around 40,000 individuals who (a) used inpatient health care in the financial year 2005/06 and died by the end of 2011/12 and (b) died in 2011/12 and had some hospital utilisation since 2005/06. We use a panel structure to follow individuals over seven years of this administrative data, containing estimates of inpatient health care expenditures (HCE), information regarding individuals’ age, time-to-death (TTD), morbidities at the time of an admission, as well as the hospital provider, year and season of admission. We show that HCE is principally determined by proximity to death rather than age, and that proximity to death is itself a proxy for morbidity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Elsevier B.V. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | health care expenditures,time-to-death,ageing,morbidity,Time-to-death,Health care expenditures,Ageing,Morbidity |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Centre for Health Economics (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number POLICY RESEARCH PROGRAMME CENTRAL COMMISSIONING FACILITY 103/0001 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2017 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:25 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.11.001 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.11.001 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124749 |