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Healthcare Costs

Healthcare costs are the financial resources expended in the delivery and consumption of medical services, encompassing direct expenditure on diagnosis, treatment, medication, and long-term care, as well as indirect costs such as lost productivity. Their study, health economics, examines cost drivers, cost-effective…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 28× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Healthcare costs are the financial resources expended in the delivery and consumption of medical services, encompassing direct expenditure on diagnosis, treatment, medication, and long-term care, as well as indirect costs such as lost productivity. Their study, health economics, examines cost drivers, cost-effectiveness, financing mechanisms, and the implications of expenditure for access and equity, informing how scarce resources are allocated across competing health needs. Cost-of-illness and cost-analysis methods quantify the economic burden of specific conditions and interventions, exemplified by comparisons of systematic versus targeted vitamin D supplementation in the elderly, modeled long-term care costs following postoperative cognitive dysfunction, and direct-cost evaluation of adverse drug reactions to antiretroviral therapy. Comparative drug-delivery analyses, such as subcutaneous infusion regimens in advanced Parkinson's disease, illustrate how treatment choice affects system expenditure. Costs also intersect with screening-program design, antimicrobial stewardship, and quality-improvement initiatives that seek to improve value, while ageing populations and chronic disease, including diabetes prediction and prevention, shape future demand. The journal publishes peer-reviewed cost analyses, economic evaluations, and health-systems studies addressing the expenditure associated with disease, treatment, and service delivery, with attention to value, efficiency, and the equitable use of constrained healthcare resources.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

The Health of Older People in Switzerland

P ChastonayCorresponding author
Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Exact topic Public Health International Cited by 12 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-18-2426

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 28 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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