"Health Expenditures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.
| Descriptor ID |
D005102
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.151.450 N05.300.385
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Expenditures- Health Expenditures
- Expenditure, Health
- Health Expenditure
- Expenditures, Health
Expenditures, Out-of-Pocket- Expenditures, Out-of-Pocket
- Expenditure, Out-of-Pocket
- Expenditures, Out of Pocket
- Out-of-Pocket Expenditure
- Out-of-Pocket Expenditures
- Out-of-Pocket Payments
- Out of Pocket Payments
- Out-of-Pocket Payment
- Payment, Out-of-Pocket
- Payments, Out-of-Pocket
- Out-of-Pocket Costs
- Cost, Out-of-Pocket
- Costs, Out-of-Pocket
- Out of Pocket Costs
- Out-of-Pocket Cost
- Out-of-Pocket Spending
- Out of Pocket Spending
- Spending, Out-of-Pocket
- Out-of Pocket Expenditures
- Expenditure, Out-of Pocket
- Expenditures, Out-of Pocket
- Out of Pocket Expenditures
- Out-of Pocket Expenditure
- Out-of-Pocket Expenses
- Expense, Out-of-Pocket
- Expenses, Out-of-Pocket
- Out of Pocket Expenses
- Out-of-Pocket Expense
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Expenditures".
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Expenditures" by people in Profiles.
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Costs of Influenza Illness and Acute Respiratory Infections by Household Income Level: Catastrophic Health Expenditures and Implications for Health Equity. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2025 01; 19(1):e70059.
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Optimising HIV spending in eastern Europe and central Asia. Lancet HIV. 2024 Oct; 11(10):e654-e655.
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The cost of care for children hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) associated lower respiratory infection in Kenya. BMC Public Health. 2024 09 04; 24(1):2410.
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Extended cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to improve uptake of diabetes services in South Africa. Health Policy Plan. 2024 Mar 12; 39(3):253-267.
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Appropriateness of laboratory expenditure for primary health care facilities across South Africa. Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2023 Jun 19; 15(1):e1-e8.
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"It is like an umbrella covering you, yet it does not protect you from the rain": a mixed methods study of insurance affordability, coverage, and financial protection in rural western Kenya. Int J Equity Health. 2023 02 06; 22(1):27.
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The household economic burden of drug-susceptible TB diagnosis and treatment in The Gambia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2022 12 01; 26(12):1162-1169.
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Prevalence and factors associated with catastrophic health expenditure among slum and non-slum dwellers undergoing emergency surgery in a metropolitan area of South Western Nigeria. PLoS One. 2021; 16(8):e0255354.
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The Economic Cost of Smoking in South Africa, 2016. Nicotine Tob Res. 2021 01 22; 23(2):286-293.
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Sustainable Development Goals relevant to kidney health: an update on progress. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2021 01; 17(1):15-32.