Healthcare Expenditures in Construction
Access to medical care is necessary for maintaining health, preventing disease and/or disease progression, and reducing disabilities and premature deaths. Two of the main barriers to receiving proper care are its high cost and a lack of health insurance.
This dashboard examines healthcare expenditures among construction workers by demographics, insurance status, and usual source of care. This dashboard includes one dashboard-level filter, Year, that updates the charts and the bolded and underlined key findings.
Following the interactive dashboard, you will find more information on the data source, definitions, chart notes, a downloadable data file, and recommended citation. This interactive data dashboard corresponds to a chapter in the upcoming PDF version of the Construction Chart Book-7th edition, which will be published this summer. If you have any questions or comments, please email [email protected].
About the Data
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2019-2022 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. https://meps.ahrq.gov.
Definitions and Chart Notes
Definitions
- Expenditures – Direct payments by individuals, public and private insurance, Worker’s Compensation, and other public sources for hospital stays, emergency room visits, outpatient department visits, office-based medical provider visits, dental visits, home health care, other medical expenses, and prescription medicines.
- Average expenditure–The average expenditure per construction worker.
- Insurance status – Having any private or public insurance at any time over the past year is insured, and no insurance during the past year is uninsured.
- Usual source of care – Medical care provider or other place where people usually go when sick or in need of advice about health.
Chart Notes
- Construction workers include individuals who reported working in the construction industry 18 years or older.
- Expenditures were adjusted for inflation to 2022 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to provide a better comparison over time.
- Individuals with expenditures greater than $100,000 and above the 99th percentile were removed as outliers.