Physical Activity and Disability: An Analysis on How Activity Might Lower Medical Expenditures

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العنوان: Physical Activity and Disability: An Analysis on How Activity Might Lower Medical Expenditures
المؤلفون: Margaret A. Turk, Suzanne McDermott, Orgul Ozturk, Xinling Xu
المصدر: Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 15:564-571
بيانات النشر: Human Kinetics, 2018.
سنة النشر: 2018
مصطلحات موضوعية: Adult, Male, Counterfactual thinking, Adolescent, Cross-sectional study, Physical activity, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, Environmental health, Humans, Medicine, National Health Interview Survey, Disabled Persons, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Exercise, National health, business.industry, Middle Aged, United States, Confidence interval, Cross-Sectional Studies, Physical Fitness, Survey data collection, Female, Public Health, Health Expenditures, Sedentary Behavior, business, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
الوصف: This study evaluated the effect of increased physical activity on annual medical expenditures among people with disability, as well as people without disability.We performed a cross-sectional study with linked national survey data from 2004 to 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and from 2002 to 2012 National Health Interview Study. We investigated the effect of physical activity on the annual medical expenditures in 2013 US dollars, among people with and without disability who were 18- to 64-year-old adults.For people with disability, we found a statistically significant effect (P .05) of physical activity on annual medical expenditures. Among people without disability, being inactive was associated with higher medical expenditures, compared with being sufficiently active. In our counterfactual analysis, among inactive people with disability, increasing activity to even a low level of activity could potentially save on average $2150.06 (95% confidence interval, 770.39 to 3529.72) annual medical costs.This analysis provides evidence that when an individual with a disability moves from inactive to active, the savings in medical expenditures are substantially larger than the savings for an individual without a disability ($2564.33 vs $393.34). Despite the challenge of participating in physical activity for people with disability, completing "some" activity may have large public health implications.
تدمد: 1543-5474
1543-3080
الوصول الحر: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::4307d4ffa1ad813790643402528ad534Test
https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2017-0331Test
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....4307d4ffa1ad813790643402528ad534
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE