Lifetime healthcare expenditures across socioeconomic groups in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals of lower socioeconomic status generally have higher healthcare expenditures than individuals of higher socioeconomic status. However, little is known about how expenditures are distributed across socioeconomic groups over a lifetime, once accounting for differences in life expectancy. This study describes how lifetime healthcare expenditures are distributed across age, sex and socioeconomic groups in Sweden while adjusting for differences in life expectancy.

Methods

Healthcare utilization from 2016 were linked to demographic and socioeconomic data for a random sample of individuals aged 20 and above in the four largest Swedish regions (n = 440 659). Mortality data were used to estimate income- and sex-specific survival rates. Expected lifetime healthca

SUBMITTER: Fledsberg S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710355 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature