| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w12184 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 12184 |
| Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions | |
| David M. Cutler; Mary Beth Landrum; Kate A. Stewart | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-05-01 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There is little empirical evidence to explain why disability declined among the elderly over the past 20 years. In this paper, we explore the role of improved medical care for cardiovascular disease on health status improvements over time. We show that the incidence of cardiovascular disease hospitalizations remained relatively constant between 1984 and 1999 at the same time that post-event survival improved and disability declined. We find that use of appropriate therapies, including pharmaceuticals such as beta-blockers, aspirin, and ace-inhibitors, and invasive procedures, explains up to 50% and 70% of the reductions in disability and death over time, respectively. Elderly patients living in regions with high use of appropriate medical therapies had better health outcomes than patients living in low-use areas. Finally, we estimate that preventing disability after an acute event can add as much as 3.7 years of quality-adjusted life expectancy, or $316,000 of value. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12184 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/569838 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David M. Cutler,Mary Beth Landrum,Kate A. Stewart. Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions. 2006. |
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| w12184.pdf（309KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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