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Researchers have used a variety of measures to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths directly attributed to COVID-19 infection and deaths in excess of prior years’ death rates. However, these measures do not incorporate the prematurity of …
Infant mortality (the death of an infant within the first year of life) is a widely-reported indicator of population health. This chart collection highlights key infant mortality trends and demographic variation within the United States and also explores infant mortality …
Note: A related chart collection is now updated with more recent data.
Mental health and substance use disorders are the leading cause of disease burden in the United States. With 10.1 deaths due to mental health or substance abuse disorders …
Compared to similar countries, the United States has higher rates of mortality for most of the leading causes of death, and generally performs worse on a variety of quality indicators. Diabetes and endocrine diseases are no exception. There has been …
Note: A related chart collection is now updated with more recent data.
Despite having significantly higher health spending than comparably wealthy and sizable countries, the U.S. lags behind other countries in several measures of health outcomes, with worse life expectancy, …
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently updated their disease-based health spending estimates with new data that allows users to examine national health spending trends by disease category from 2000 – 2012. The BEA satellite account differs from the official …
How can we know if the performance of the health system overall in the U.S. is good and if it is getting better or worse over time? Can a meaningful and reasonably understandable set of national quality measures be identified, …
The March 2015 issue of Health Affairs takes a look at the benefits and limitations of how health information is gathered and shared with patients, providers, and purchasers. With growing efforts to boost transparency in the health system by collecting …
Economists from MIT will soon publish a study in the Journal of Political Economy finding that higher cost emergency care was associated with better health outcomes for Medicare patients in …