Lifetime healthcare expenditures across socioeconomic groups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A socioeconomic gradient affects healthcare expenditures and longevity in opposite directions as less affluent individuals have higher current healthcare expenditures but simultaneously enjoy shorter lives. Yet, it is unclear whether this cross-sectional healthcare expenditure gradient persists from a lifetime perspective. This paper analyzes lifetime healthcare expenditures across socioeconomic groups using detailed individual-level healthcare expenditure data for the entire Danish population.

Method

Using full population healthcare expenditures from Danish registries, we estimate lifetime healthcare expenditures as age-specific mean healthcare expenditures times the probability of being alive at each age. Our data enables the estimation of lifetime healthcare ex

SUBMITTER: Kallestrup-Lamb M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11463145 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature