Bhakti Wellness Center July 2013 Newsletter – Tidbits
- Three fourths of health care workers use complementary and alternative medicine, compared with 63 percent of the general working population.
- In a 2011 study in the journal Health Services Research, Doctors and nurses had more than twice the odds of having used a practitioner-based CAM method during the prior year and nearly three times the use of self- treatment with CAM than support workers.
- The average American between the ages of 19 and 64 now takes close to 12 prescription drugs every year.
- Health care expenditures in the United States are the highest of any developed country, at 15.3% of GDP. The country with the next highest spending is Switzerland, at 11.6% of GDP.
- 75% percent of total health care spending in the United States in 2007 went towards the treatment of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and asthma.
- Approximately half of all chronic diseases are linked to preventable problems including smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity.
- Approximately 50 percent of personal bankruptcies are due to medical expenses.