The University of Chicago Header Logo

Health Expenditures

"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.

expand / collapse MeSH information
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.


expand / collapse publications
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.
Bar chart showing 79 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2016 and 2018
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.