Figure 1.
Flowchart of data collection.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the study populations.
Table 2.
The effect of socio-demographic characteristics on health care expenditure (HCE) in the total study population (n = 61,495), from July 2007 through 2010.
Figure 2.
Monthly health care expenditure (HCE) before and after death of the spouse (n = 6,487).
Point estimates in the left panel represent the raw data. Point estimates from the right panel are from a linear mixed model with log transformed HCE, standardized for gender, age, socio-economic status, and calendar year.
Figure 3.
Monthly health care expenditure before and after the death of the spouse for both genders (a), two age groups (b) and two SES groups (c).
Point estimates are from a linear mixed model with log transformed health care expenditure, standardized for gender, age, socio-economic status and calendar year.
Table 3.
Differences in health care expenditure (HCE) in the 42 months before and after death of the spouse (population of widowed subjects, n = 6,487).
Table 4.
Differences in health care expenditure (HCE) in the 42 months before and after death of the spouse for separate health services, standardized for gender, age, socio-economic status and calendar year (subpopulation of widowed subjects, n = 2,027).