The terms "population" or "population based" are increasingly coupled with "health," "health care," "medicine," "medical care," or "managed care" to indicate a changing reality in the organization and delivery of health care in the United States. In this brief review, we highlight key elements of this emerging phenomenon and provide...
It's no secret that the U.S. population is aging. According to census data, 13 percent of the population is age 65 and older. By 2030, 20 percent of Americans, about 70 million, will be over 65. The population age 85 and above is currently the fastest-growing segment of the older...
As the elderly population grows and the majority of the dying patients from this population suffer from chronic illness, the quality of end-of-care has become increasingly important for them. This paper describes about optimizing the utilization of expensive resources, reducing unnecessary hospitalization and undesirable life-sustaining interventions to help the elderly...
Seniors are the fastest growing population group in the United States. The aging of the population has important consequences for the health care system. As the elderly population increases, more services will be required for the treatment and management of chronic and acute health conditions. Providing health care services needed...
This report presents dietary intake estimates for selected B-vitamins, carotenes, and vitamins A, C, and E from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000, for the U.S. population. Vitamin intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview. Population means, medians, and standard errors of the mean are weighted...
This paper examines the status of health insurance coverage in the United States. The data are based primarily on the March 2004 Current Population Survey CPS, with some analysis based on other CPS surveys. The report focuses on the nonelderly population (under age 65) because this group can receive health...
This report presents dietary intake estimates for selected minerals from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000, for the U.S. population. These minerals included: calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium, and zinc. Mineral intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview. Population means, medians, and standard...
Severe Acute Renal Failure sARF is associated with considerable morbidity, mortality and use of healthcare resources; however, its precise epidemiology and long-term outcomes have not been well described in a non-specified population. Population-based surveillance was conducted among all adult residents of the Calgary Health Region (population 1 million) admitted to...
This paper presents dietary intake estimates for fats and fatty acids from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000, for the U.S. population. These include: total fat; total saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fat; individual fatty acids; and cholesterol. Fat intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview. Population...
This paper studies the role of population aging for Foreign Direct Investment FDI and the strategic taxation of capital. Importantly, this theoretical model suggests that the labor market implications of aging differ from the financial market aspects. While population aging may be associated with a lower capital stock in the...
The Population Health Approach, proposed by Health Canada, is the articulation of a long advocated model of human health. This approach strives to ensure that the health system is appropriately oriented to improve health status by applying evidence based practices across the continuum from health determinants to service interventions. The...
This report presents dietary intake estimates of 10 nutrients for the U.S. population by sex and age groups. Nutrient intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview conducted in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000. Population means, medians, and standard errors of the mean are weighted to...
Long-term care ? it may well be the nation's greatest uninsured need. In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor's Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans describes "a potentially serious long-term care crisis in the United States." One reason for the concern is that Americans are getting older....
For a long time that health care resources and costs are concentrated on a relatively small proportion of the population. These high-level consumers of health care have gained the negative reputation of being "high users" and provide an obvious target for cost containment. With the rising costs of pharmaceuticals over...
The U.S. social security system - broadly defined to include Medicare - faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population. But demographic change is also likely to raise savings, increase wages, and reduce interest rates, and up to a point, a growing GDP-share of medical spending is...
A Deloitte research study sheds light on how governments can come to grips with the emerging and rapidly approaching challenges posed by an aging population. How will the aging population change the way state governments deliver services and programs? As a first step, government agencies need to thoroughly understand how...
Assessing the current physician requirements of a community has never been more challenging, due to a number of recent national and local environmental factors that have rendered traditional physician models obsolete and, sometimes, misleading. This paper presents a fresh set of models that were built on recent information reflecting changes...
This paper proposes a probabilistic approach for estimating parameters of an option-pricing model from a set of observed option prices. The approach is based on a stochastic optimization algorithm, which generates a random sample from the set of global minima of the in-sample pricing error and allows for the existence...
The report highlights health plan's thoughtful and wide-ranging approaches to this common disease, which affects approximately ten percent of the U.S. population at any given time. Because health plans provide the health care for most Americans, (approx. 68% of the population), they have a strong commitment to improve the recognition,...
Severely disabling chronic pain in the adult population is strongly associated with a range of negative health consequences for individuals and high health care costs, yet its prevalence in young adults is less clear. Pain is a common phenomenon encountered by young adults, affecting 66.9% of this study population. Previously...
