BACKGROUND Motorcycles are the most popular means of transportation in northern Ghana, and their accidents are major causes of out-patient attendance and admissions in the Bolgatanga Municipality. OBJECTIVE This paper estimates the economic burden of motorcycle accidents in the Bolgatanga Municipality in Northern Ghana. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional cost study. METHODS Data were co...

Though a number of occupational accidents have occurred amongst the working population in Mauritius, no study has been carried out to measure the costs associated with such accidents to the best of our knowledge. This study bridges this gap by measuring the economic costs of occupational accidents by using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results show that occupational accident...

BACKGROUND Of overall traffic accidents in 2011 in Turkey, 7.58% (n=21,107) were motorcycle accidents. Motorcycle accidents and their impact on healthcare costs are investigated in our study. METHODS Motorcycle accidents that occurred with/without a collision between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2011 were studied prospectively through the inspection of patients visiting the Emergency Service. The ...

sleeping through different mechanism causes the removal of fatigue and regaining power to start daily activities. sleep with high quality plays an essential role in body and mental health. the previous studies indicated that problems derived from sleeping can lead to the emergence of many physical and mental disorders, including lack of appetite, physical and mental tiredness, lack of concentra...

introduction: hospitals as important sector of health care system has special location in health economic science. increasing of the operational costs in hospital and limitation in financing cause that hospital as an economic firm use cost analysis and prepare effective using of resource and boost productivity. therefore this study was conducted to calculate daily- patient hotel cost in hospita...

Annually, approximately 2 million patients suffer with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in the USA, and nearly 90,000 are estimated to die. The overall direct cost of HAIs to hospitals ranges from US$28 billion to 45 billion. While the range is wide, HAIs are clearly expensive. In addition, most HAIs are thought to be preventable; however, published guidelines are not congruent. Importan...

A study performed in five Brazilian cities (Diadema, Belo Horizonte, Santos, Vitória, and São Paulo) found high rates (19.4%, 19.6%, 18.9%, 17.9%, and 20.0%, respectively) of drivers with blood alcohol concentrations higher than the legal permissible limit (0.6 g/l) [4]. Data from the World Health Organization indicate that 500,000 individuals are injured and 17,000 die every year in traffic ac...

OBJECTIVES To calculate total costs over 6 years after diagnosis of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHOD In the longitudinal prospective multicentre TIRA study, 239 patients from seven units, diagnosed in 1996-98, reported regularly on health-care utilization and the number of days lost from work. Costs were obtained from official databases and calculated using unit costs (Swedish kronor, ...

background: high prevalence and increasing rate of asthmatic patients around the word witnesses the high burden of asthma. we have limited data on asthma burden and economic costs in iran. this study aimed to find direct and indirect economic costs of asthma and their association with some background factors in one of the referral tertiary centers for adult patients with asthma. methods: we sur...