An Unhealthy America:The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease
An Unhealthy America:The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease
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不健康的美国:慢性病的经济负担
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2007
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Kevin Klowden
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R. Devol;Armen Bedroussian;A. Charuworn;A. Chatterjee;Insin Kim;Soojung Kim;Kevin Klowden
超过一半的美国人患有一种或多种慢性疾病。每年有数百万人被诊断患有慢性病，另有数百万人死于慢性病。根据我们的计算，最常见的慢性病每年给经济造成的损失超过1万亿美元--到世纪中期，这一数字有可能达到6万亿美元。然而，其中大部分成本是可以避免的。未能控制可控制的疾病正在破坏扩大医疗保险覆盖范围和应对人口老龄化医疗费用的前景。慢性病发病率的上升是医疗支出增长的一个关键因素，但往往被忽视。当然，可避免疾病的个人和经济后果对那些生病的人及其家人来说是最大的。然而，在这项研究中，我们关注的是慢性病的狭义、更有形的成本：用于治疗可避免疾病的医疗资源;对劳动力供应的影响（主要是通过降低生产率），从而影响GDP;以及对长期经济增长的拖累。
More than half of Americans suffer from one or more chronic diseases. Each year millions of people are diagnosed with chronic disease, and millions more die from their condition. By our calculations, the most common chronic diseases are costing the economy more than $1 trillion annually— and that figure threatens to reach $6 trillion by the middle of the century. Yet much of this cost is avoidable. This failure to contain the containable is undermining prospects for extending health insurance coverage and for coping with the medical costs of an aging population. The rising rate of chronic disease is a crucial but frequently ignored contributor to growth in medical expenditures. Of course, the personal and financial consequences of avoidable illness are greatest for those who become ill and their families. In this research, however, we focused on the narrower, more tangible costs of chronic illness: the medical resources used to treat avoidable illness; the impact on labor supply (primarily through lower productivity), and thus GDP; and the drag on long-term economic growth.