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Does Last Year’s Cost Predict the Present Cost? An Application of Machine Leaning for the Japanese Area-Basis Public Health Insurance Database
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 565, p 565 (2021), Volume 18, Issue 2
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2021.
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Abstract
- The increasing healthcare cost imposes a large economic burden for the Japanese government. Predicting the healthcare cost may be a useful tool for policy making. A database of the area-basis public health insurance of one city was analyzed to predict the medical healthcare cost by the dental healthcare cost with a machine learning strategy. The 30,340 subjects who had continued registration of the area-basis public health insurance of Ebina city during April 2017 to September 2018 were analyzed. The sum of the healthcare cost was JPY 13,548,831,930. The per capita healthcare cost was JPY 446,567. The proportion of medical healthcare cost, medication cost, and dental healthcare cost was 78%, 15%, and 7%, respectively. By the results of the neural network model, the medical healthcare cost proportionally depended on the medical healthcare cost of the previous year. The dental healthcare cost of the previous year had a reducing effect on the medical healthcare cost. However, the effect was very small. Oral health may be a risk for chronic diseases. However, when evaluated by the healthcare cost, its effect was very small during the observation period.
- Subjects :
- Databases, Factual
Policy making
neural network
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Observation period
lcsh:Medicine
Oral health
healthcare cost
computer.software_genre
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cost of Illness
Japan
Medication cost
Per capita
Humans
dental healthcare cost
030212 general & internal medicine
health care economics and organizations
Government
Insurance, Health
Database
Public health insurance
lcsh:R
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
030206 dentistry
Health Care Costs
medical healthcare cost
zero-inflated model
Healthcare cost
Business
computer
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16604601 and 16617827
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....018526d50aabb268b172fa4ed4cf378b