Comparison of Health Care Spending by Age in 8 High-Income Countries

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Aug 3;3(8):e2014688. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.14688.

Authors

Irene Papanicolas^{1

2

3}, Alberto Marino^{1

4}, Luca Lorenzoni⁴, Ashish Jha^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
⁴ Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study compares health care spending by age in the US with spending in 8 other high-income countries.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
Developed Countries / statistics & numerical data*
Health Expenditures / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Middle Aged
Young Adult