Anne Bulchis

TL;DR: Patterns of the epidemiological transition with a composite indicator of sociodemographic status, which was constructed from income per person, average years of schooling after age 15 years, and the total fertility rate and mean age of the population, were quantified.

TL;DR: Modeled estimates of US spending on personal health care and public health showed substantial increases from 1996 through 2013; with spending on diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and low back and neck pain accounting for the highest amounts of spending by disease category.

TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age-sex groups, and countries as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This study shows high spending on health care attributable to modifiable risk factors in the USA for 2016 and highlights the need for preventing and controlling risk exposure.

TL;DR: The relationship between charges and payments in the inpatient hospital setting in the US varies significantly across three dimensions: payer, year, and cause, and the amount paid per charge fluctuates significantly depending on the cause of a health care encounter and the primary payer.