Most of healthcare budget is spent on care not cure

Most of healthcare budget is spent on care not cure

Attempts to contain the costs of health care give little attention to the demand for resources, especially for long term care.Meerding et al analysed expenditure of the Dutch healthcare budgetfor 1994 and found that 23% was spent on mental diseases, includingchronic psychiatric disease, dementia, and mental disability (p 111).Musculoskeletal disorders also featured highly, but cardiovasculardisease accounted for only 11% of the budget and cancer for 4%.Healthcare costs increased steeply with age, so the ageing ofthe population will mean that budgets will need to increase.

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Demographic and epidemiological determinants of healthcare costs in Netherlands: cost of illness study: Willem Jan Meerding, Luc Bonneux, Johan J Polder, Marc A Koopmanschap, and Paul J van der Maas
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