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Health care expenditures and longevity: is there a Eubie Blake effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 16 (2015) 1, pp. 95-112
, rising longevity—through falling mortality rates—may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of many previous empirical studies … impact of rising longevity on the trend of HCE over time by using data from a pseudo-panel of German sickness fund members … on the basis of an official population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real …
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Aging and Health Care Expenditures: A Non-Parametric Approach
Lorenz, Normann; Ihle, Peter; Breyer, Friedrich - 2020
One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems. Proponents of the "red-herring hypothesis" argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207981
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Looking into the black box of "medical progress": Rising health expenditures by illness type and age
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2021
There is agreement among health economists that on the whole medical innovation causes health care expenditures (HCE) to rise. This paper analyzes for which diagnoses and in which age groups HCE per patient have grown significantly faster than average HCE. We distinguish decedents (patients in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662712
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Looking into the black box of "medical progress": Rising health expenditures by illness type and age
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2021
There is agreement among health economists that on the whole medical innovation causes health care expenditures (HCE) to rise. This paper analyzes for which diagnoses and in which age groups HCE per patient have grown significantly faster than average HCE. We distinguish decedents (patients in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439839
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Aging and health care expenditures : a non-parametric approach
Lorenz, Normann; Ihle, Peter; Breyer, Friedrich - 2020
One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems. Proponents of the “red-herring hypothesis” argue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200247
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Health care expenditures and longevity : is there a Eubie Blake effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012
-capita HCE over the next decades. -- Health care expenditures ; ageing ; longevity ; 5-year survival rate …, rising longevity - through falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies … impact of rising longevity on the trend of HCE over time by using data for a pseudo-panel of German sickness fund members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579344
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The 'Red Herring' after 20 Years : Ageing and Health Care Expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich - 2019
which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed … studies have been rather mixed. In light of the imminent population ageing in many of these countries it is still being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858634
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Health Care Expenditures and Longevity : Is There a Eubie Blake Effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012
, rising longevity - through falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies … impact of rising longevity on the trend of HCE over time by using data for a pseudo-panel of German sickness fund members … basis of an official population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167225
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Proximity to death and health care expenditure increase revisited: A 15-year panel analysis of elderly persons
von Wyl, Viktor - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 9, pp. 1-16
Background: Health care expenditures (HCE) are known to steepen with increasing age, but the contributions of biological age, morbidity, or proximity to death as cost drivers are debated. Age-associated HCE growth can be studied across two dimensions: within fixed groups of persons with the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010791
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Health, Expenditure, Longevity and Growth
Dormont, Brigitte; Oliveira Martins, Joaquim; Pelgrin, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709023