"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".
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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 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 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 | 0 | 4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Expenditures" by people in Profiles.
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Mortality, Health Care Use, and Spending Patterns During South Korea's Trainee Physicians' Walkout. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 07 01; 9(7):e2622131.
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Trends In US Health Care Spending By Income, 2005-23. Health Aff (Millwood). 2026 Jul; 45(7):734-740.
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Preventing tomorrow's high-cost claims: the rising-risk patient opportunity in Medicaid. Am J Manag Care. 2025 Nov; 31(11):647-649.
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Estimated Impact Of Medically Tailored Meals On Health Care Use And Expenditures In 50 US States. Health Aff (Millwood). 2025 04; 44(4):433-442.
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Burden and Cost of Gastrointestinal, Liver, and Pancreatic Diseases in the United States: Update 2024. Gastroenterology. 2025 05; 168(5):1000-1024.
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Reduced Cost Sharing and Medication Management Services for COPD: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 10 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 09 01; 62(9):624-627.