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The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Workshop Series Summary (The Learning Health System Series: Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care) by Pierre L. Young, LeighAnne Olsen, Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, Institute of Medicine is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discuss

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Author
Pierre L. Young, LeighAnne Olsen, Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, Institute of Medicine
Publisher
National Academies Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781283376129
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Education, Medicine

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