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Economic burden of asthma in Korea
Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, 2011Understanding the magnitude of the economic impact of an illness on society is fundamental to planning and implementing relevant policies. South Korea operates a compulsory universal health insurance system providing favorable conditions for evaluating the nationwide economic burden of illnesses.
Yo-Han, Lee +5 more
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The Economic Burden of Geriatric ESRD
Seminars in Dialysis, 2012AbstractThe elderly represent the fastest growing segment of incident patients entering end‐stage renal disease (ESRD). Increasingly, social scientists and caregivers are faced with changing models of care, which will challenge traditional patterns of patient acceptance into costly medical therapies.
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Reducing the economic burden of depression
International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1994Depressive illness places an enormous economic burden on health services, the community and the individual patient. It is a serious medical disorder associated with high levels of social and physical disability. Antidepressant drug therapy can produce significant improvement in the majority of patients.
R, Lane, G, McDonald
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The economic burden of tuberculosis in Indonesia
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2017Indonesia has a high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) and is one of the 22 countries with the highest TB burdens in the world.To understand the economic burden of TB in Indonesia.TB data for 2015 were combined with cost data using a simple type of cost-benefit analysis in a decision tree model to show the economic burden under different scenarios.In ...
D, Collins, F, Hafidz, D, Mustikawati
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Epidemiology and economic burden of asthma
International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, 2015BackgroundThe “asthma epidemic” is on the rise, with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiological studies reporting a 3.0% asthma prevalence in the United States in 1970, 5.5% in 1996, and 7.8% in 2006 to 2008. This results in an immense economic burden, with asthma costing an estimated $56 billion in the United States in 2007, which is a 6 ...
Patricia A, Loftus, Sarah K, Wise
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The Economic Burden of Childhood Glaucoma
Journal of Glaucoma, 2016Purpose: To date, there are limited data on the economic burden of childhood glaucoma, a relatively rare but visually debilitating disease. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the immediate costs of illness associated with childhood glaucoma during the first 4 years after presentation ...
Dan, Liu +3 more
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The socio-economical burden of hypersomnia
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2010In the absence of socio-economical consequences of hypersomnia this study addresses the factual indirect and direct costs.Two thousand two hundred and eight patients with a hypersomnia diagnosis from 1998 to 2005 were identified in the Danish national patient registry (NPR), each compared with 4 age and gender adjusted, randomly chosen citizens ...
Jennum, P, Kjellberg, J
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The Economics Burden of Atopic Dermatitis
2017Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects over 30 million people in the United States of America. Given the large and growing prevalence of AD, the associated economic burden is significant. It has been estimated that AD costs over $5 billion dollars annually. These costs include both direct and indirect costs. Direct costs
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The Economic Burden of Affective Disorders
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1995Background. This paper summarises the methods and sources of data used to estimate costs of affective disorders and presents the results.Method. A timing model employing regression analysis was developed to estimate morbidity costs. This model measures the lifetime effect on current income of individuals with affective disorders, taking into account ...
D P, Rice, L S, Miller
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The Economic Burden of Migraine to Society
PharmacoEconomics, 1998The financial burden of migraine on society comprises direct costs, associated with medical care, and indirect costs, caused by absence from work and reduced productivity. Recent studies have revealed that direct costs are generally relatively low in Europe, but are much higher in North America, probably because of increased use of emergency room and ...
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