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Spending more, feeling worse
Americans spend twice as much on health care as their European and Canadian counterparts yet are more likely to rate their own quality of health as poor, according to a new report, "Spending more, feeling worse: medical care expenditures and self-rated health," written by PSU Professor Mark Kaplan and published in the June 2004 edition of the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
The report confirms other research indicating that the expensive and technologically advanced healthcare system in the U.S. does not yield comparable population health outcomes. It also suggests that unequal and uncoordinated provision of care, along with other inefficiencies in the U.S. health system, may explain why Americans spend more but feel worse, says Kaplan, a professor in the School of Community Health who is currently a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ottawa.
The report was co-authored by Bentson McFarland, OHSU's Department of Psychiatry; Jason Newsom, PSU Institute on Aging; and Nathalie Huguet, PSU School of Community Health.
The report confirms other research indicating that the expensive and technologically advanced healthcare system in the U.S. does not yield comparable population health outcomes. It also suggests that unequal and uncoordinated provision of care, along with other inefficiencies in the U.S. health system, may explain why Americans spend more but feel worse, says Kaplan, a professor in the School of Community Health who is currently a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ottawa.
The report was co-authored by Bentson McFarland, OHSU's Department of Psychiatry; Jason Newsom, PSU Institute on Aging; and Nathalie Huguet, PSU School of Community Health.
