"Health Expenditures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.
| Descriptor ID |
D005102
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.151.450 N05.300.385
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Expenditures- Health Expenditures
- Expenditure, Health
- Health Expenditure
- Expenditures, Health
Expenditures, Out-of-Pocket- Expenditures, Out-of-Pocket
- Expenditure, Out-of-Pocket
- Expenditures, Out of Pocket
- Out-of-Pocket Expenditure
- Out-of-Pocket Expenditures
- Out-of-Pocket Payments
- Out of Pocket Payments
- Out-of-Pocket Payment
- Payment, Out-of-Pocket
- Payments, Out-of-Pocket
- Out-of-Pocket Costs
- Cost, Out-of-Pocket
- Costs, Out-of-Pocket
- Out of Pocket Costs
- Out-of-Pocket Cost
- Out-of-Pocket Spending
- Out of Pocket Spending
- Spending, Out-of-Pocket
- Out-of Pocket Expenditures
- Expenditure, Out-of Pocket
- Expenditures, Out-of Pocket
- Out of Pocket Expenditures
- Out-of Pocket Expenditure
- Out-of-Pocket Expenses
- Expense, Out-of-Pocket
- Expenses, Out-of-Pocket
- Out of Pocket Expenses
- Out-of-Pocket Expense
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Expenditures".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Expenditures".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Expenditures" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Expenditures" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Expenditures" by people in Profiles.
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Estimated Impact Of Medically Tailored Meals On Health Care Use And Expenditures In 50 US States. Health Aff (Millwood). 2025 Apr; 44(4):433-442.
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Reduced Cost Sharing and Medication Management Services for COPD: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Oct 01; 184(10):1186-1194.
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Health care resource use and costs in patients with food allergies: a United States insurance claims database analysis. J Med Econ. 2024 Jan-Dec; 27(1):1027-1035.
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The clinical and economic burdens of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis. J Med Econ. 2024 Jan-Dec; 27(1):919-930.
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Out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic testing following abnormal prostate cancer screening among privately insured men. Cancer. 2024 Oct 01; 130(19):3305-3310.
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Collaborative Care Cost-Sharing and Referral Rates in Colorado. Med Care. 2024 Sep 01; 62(9):624-627.
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Association of Private Equity Acquisition of Physician Practices With Changes in Health Care Spending and Utilization. JAMA Health Forum. 2022 09 02; 3(9):e222886.
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State-Level Variation In Low-Value Care For Commercially Insured And Medicare Advantage Populations. Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 09; 41(9):1281-1290.
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Optimizing Value for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations. Gastroenterology. 2022 06; 162(7):2092-2094.e2.
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Comparison of out-of-pocket costs and adherence between the two arms of the prospective, randomized abiraterone food effect trial. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Mar; 30(3):2803-2810.