全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly U.S. Population

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19268
来源ID	Working Paper 19268
	Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly U.S. Population
	David M. Cutler; Kaushik Ghosh; Mary Beth Landrum
发表日期	2013-08-01
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	The 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.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19268
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/576944
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	David M. Cutler,Kaushik Ghosh,Mary Beth Landrum. Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly U.S. Population. 2013.