Health care
AIDS patients, 55, 126-127
Alzheimer's disease, 128
cancer patients, health care for, 127-128
comparison of hospital, skilled nursing facility, and hospice Medicare charges, 123(t 9.6)
end-of-life care costs, 118-119, 128-129
federal spending on AIDS, 128t-129t, 130t-131t, 132t-133t
geriatrics, 144-147
home health care patients, 124f, 125(t 9.10)
long-term, 121, 123-125
Medicaid, 118
Medicaid hospice benefits, 121
Medicaid payments, by type of service, 123(t 9.8)
Medicaid recipients and vendor payment by eligibility basis and race/ethnicity, 122t
Medicare, 115, 117-118
Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities or end stage renal disease, 127f
Medicare benefit payments by type of service, 123(t 9.7)
Medicare certified hospices, 123(t 9.5)
Medicare enrollees and expenditures by type of service, 120t-121t
Medicare home health care spending, 125(t 9.11)
Medicare hospice benefits, 119-121
nation's health dollar, 119f
nursing home care, 124-125
nursing home residents by age, sex, and race, 126t
states offering hospice under Medicaid, 124t
Health care proxies, 18
Health maintenance organizations (HMOs), 117
Hebrews, ancient, 1
Hemlock Society. See End-of-Life Choices
Hendin, Herbert, 69-70
Herbert, Clarence, 105
Hinduism, 15
Hippocratic Oath, 16
Hispanic Americans
cancer incidence and mortality rates by site, 143t
cerebrovascular diseases, death rates for, 144t-145t
death rates for heart diseases, 139t-141t
infant mortality, 42t-43t, 44t, 46t-47t
low birthweight infants, 49t-50t, 51t-53t, 54t
Medicaid recipients and vendor payment by eligibility basis, 122t
premature infants, 49t-50t
suicide rates, 58t-60t
History
advance directives, 79
beliefs about death, 1-3, 13
euthanasia, 57
HIV/AIDS
costs of health care, 126-127
deaths due to, 21, 25t
federal spending, 128t-129t
physician-assisted suicide, 18
Ryan White Comprehensive Aids Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, 127, 130t-131t, 132t-133t
treatment decisions, 55
Home health care, 121, 123-124, 124f, 125(t 9.10), 125(t 9.11)
Homicide, termination of life support as, 102, 105
Hoover, Donald, 119
Hospice care
discharges by diagnoses at admission, 6t
discharges by length of stay, 5t
Hospice movement, 4
Medicaid benefits, 121
Medicare and, 119-121, 123(t 9.5)
patients' values and, 6
states offering hospice under Medicaid, 124t
Hospitals
SUPPORT end-of-life care survey, 21-22, 25-26
withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and hospital rights, 105-106
Humphry, Derek, 72
Hydration, artificial. See Artificial nutrition and hydration
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