The Role of Chronic Disease, Obesity, and Improved Treatment and Detection in Accounting for the Rise in Healthcare Spending Between 1987 and 2011.

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To curb rising healthcare expenditures in the U.S.A., the factors underlying this growth must be well understood.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Appl Health Econ Health Policy

Title: Applied health economics and health policy

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISSN (Electronic): 1179-1896

ISSN (Print): 1175-5652

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 2015

Volume: 13

Issue: 4

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[1 ] Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, kthorpe@emory.edu.

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DOI: 10.1007/s40258-015-0164-7

PubMed ID: 25850897

SO-VID: a5a64e1e-1d57-404a-952f-5e790fc0b4ee

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