Sensenig A L, Heffler S K
Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore, MD 21244, USA.
Health Care Financ Rev. 1996 Fall;18(1):253-69.
This regular feature of the journal includes a discussion of recent trends in health care spending, employment, and prices. The statistics presented in this article are valuable in their own right and for understanding the relationship between the health care sector and the overall economy. In addition, they allow us to anticipate the direction and magnitude of health care cost changes prior to the availability of more comprehensive data.
该期刊的这一固定栏目讨论了医疗保健支出、就业和价格方面的近期趋势。本文所呈现的统计数据本身就很有价值,对于理解医疗保健部门与整体经济之间的关系也很有价值。此外,这些数据使我们能够在获得更全面数据之前预测医疗保健成本变化的方向和幅度。