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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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- 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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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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- Economics (1966-1967)
- Economics, Medical (1966-1967)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Health Expenditures. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005102. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005102
- Health Expenditures. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_expenditure
- Health Expenditures. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11404676