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_aCutler, David M. _98699 |
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_aEvidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly U.S. Population / _cDavid M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, Mary Beth Landrum. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2013. |
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_aNBER working paper series _vno. w19268 |
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| 500 | _aAugust 2013. | ||
| 520 | 3 | _aThe question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical spending increases than if life extension were accompanied by expanding morbidity. Using nearly 20 years of data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, we examine how health is changing by time period until death. We show that functional measures of health are improving, and more so the farther away from death the person is surveyed. Disease rates are relatively constant at all times until death. On net, there is strong evidence for compression of morbidity based on measured disability, but less clear evidence based on disease-free survival. | |
| 530 | _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers | ||
| 538 | _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
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_aI1 - Health _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aJ11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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| 700 | 1 | _aGhosh, Kaushik. | |
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_aLandrum, Mary Beth. _933088 |
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| 710 | 2 | _aNational Bureau of Economic Research. | |
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_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w19268. |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w19268 |
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_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w19268 |
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