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In 2012, the Institute of Medicine recommended that the Secretary of Health set 2030 targets for U.S. life expectancy and health care spending in For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future. That report summarized research showing that the United States was an outlier among Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, with its mediocre average life expectancy at birth and its extraordinary level of per capita health spending, which was at the time (and in 2021) highest in the world. This March 2021 event will explore ramifications of and potential solutions for U.S. health care spending.
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Workshop
·2023
The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, a convening activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, held a workshop on March 15-16, 2021, to explore issues related to increasing health care spending in the United States. The workshop, U.S. Health Care Expenditure...
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A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop with objectives that may include exploring the following topics: (1) the rationale for addressing wasteful HCE (including opportunity costs such as investing in public health infrastructure and education, among other social determinants of health); (2) frameworks and models for improving US parity with comparable OECD nations in HCE, including work of states in setting targets for health care cost growth; (3) communication strategies to further the goal of reducing HCE; and (4) research, including modeling, needed to be done to inform community-level investments once HCE are decreased to achieve better health, well-being and equity.
A proceedings summarizing the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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Private: Non Profit
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Alina Baciu
Lead
Harika Dyer
Ayshia Coletrane
