"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".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Expenditures".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Expenditures" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Expenditures" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2017 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2019 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Expenditures" by people in Profiles.
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Association between buprenorphine adherence for opioid use disorder and clinical events and healthcare spending among older patients. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Sep; 176:209740.
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Insurer and patient costs for repeat breast surgery after initial lumpectomy for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2025 Aug; 212(3):457-465.
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Marginal health care expenditures for melanoma care in the United States. J Manag Care Spec Pharm. 2024 Dec; 30(12):1364-1374.
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Allopurinol Adherence in US Patients With Gout: Analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2018-2021. J Clin Rheumatol. 2025 Mar 01; 31(2):83-86.
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Healthcare Costs in the United States by Demographic Characteristics and Comorbidity Status. Value Health. 2025 02; 28(2):206-214.
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A Costly Cure: Understanding and Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cardiovascular Disease Health Care Within the Domain of Social Determinants of Health. Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2024; 20(5):15-26.
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Systemic treatments for advanced prostate cancer: relationship between health insurance plan and treatment costs. Am J Manag Care. 2024 Sep 01; 30(9):e274-e281.
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Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Healthcare Expenditure and Resource Utilization Among Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 Oct; 12(5):3210-3222.
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Understanding racial disparities in health care expenditures for cervical cancer. J Manag Care Spec Pharm. 2024 Aug; 30(8):873-881.
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Healthcare use and out-of-pocket costs for rural family caregivers and care recipients in a randomized controlled trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Aug; 72(8):2523-2531.