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National Health Spending: Faster Growth In 2015 As Coverage Expands And Utilization Increases

Overview of attention for article published in Health Affairs, December 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
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77 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
policy
6 policy sources
twitter
205 X users
facebook
7 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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113 Dimensions

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103 Mendeley
Title
National Health Spending: Faster Growth In 2015 As Coverage Expands And Utilization Increases
Published in
Health Affairs, December 2016
DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1330
Pubmed ID
Authors

Anne B. Martin, Micah Hartman, Benjamin Washington, Aaron Catlin, Health Expenditure Accounts Team

Abstract

Total nominal US health care spending increased 5.8 percent and reached $3.2 trillion in 2015. On a per person basis, spending on health care increased 5.0 percent, reaching $9,990. The share of gross domestic product devoted to health care spending was 17.8 percent in 2015, up from 17.4 percent in 2014. Coverage expansions that began in 2014 as a result of the Affordable Care Act continued to affect health spending growth in 2015. In that year, the faster growth in total health care spending was primarily due to accelerated growth in spending for private health insurance (growth of 7.2 percent), hospital care (5.6 percent), and physician and clinical services (6.3 percent). Continued strong growth in Medicaid (9.7 percent) and retail prescription drug spending (9.0 percent), albeit at a slower rate than in 2014, contributed to overall health care spending growth in 2015.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Unknown 101 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 14%
Researcher 14 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 14%
Student > Master 13 13%
Other 11 11%
Other 18 17%
Unknown 19 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 30%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 10%
Social Sciences 9 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 7%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 24 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 833. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 August 2021.
All research outputs
#22,131
of 25,542,788 outputs
Outputs from Health Affairs
#73
of 6,522 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#423
of 417,040 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Affairs
#5
of 93 outputs
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