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Could investment in preventive health care services reduce health care costs among those insured with health insurance societies in Japan?
- Source :
- Population health management. 17(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This study examined the impact of expenditures for preventive health care services on health care costs among those insured with health insurance societies in Japan using cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. The subjects of the study were those insured with Japan's 1481 health insurance societies belonging to the National Federation of Health Insurance Societies in 2003 and 2007. Multiple regression analyses were conducted using the forced entry method. Case rates, number of service days, and health care costs were used as dependent variables, and preventive health care expenditures, average age, number of the insured, gender ratio, average monthly salary, and dependents ratio were used as independent variables. Expenditures for preventive health care services showed significant negative correlations with both the number of service days and health care costs for inpatient and outpatient services in 2003 and 2007. The results showed that expenditures for preventive health care services had a negative relationship with health care costs. Thus, these findings support the effects of investment in preventive health activities as promoted by health insurance societies to reduce health care costs.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Leadership and Management
Self-insurance
Insurance Coverage
Health administration
Nursing
Japan
Cost Savings
Environmental health
Health care
Preventive Health Services
Humans
Salary
Longitudinal Studies
Health policy
Insurance, Health
business.industry
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Care Costs
Investment (macroeconomics)
Health promotion
Cross-Sectional Studies
Negative relationship
Regression Analysis
Female
Health Expenditures
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19427905
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Population health management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....620a83dff9e1e45c138351e53144f713