To estimate the indirect costs related to productivity losses attributable premature mortality by diabetes mellitus (DM) in Colombia, 1998-2017.

BACKGROUND A central aim of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is protection for all against the cost of illness. In a low income country like Bangladesh the cost burden of health care in tertiary facilities is likely to be significant for most citizens. This cost of an episode of illness is a relatively unexplored policy issue in Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to estimate an outpatie...

Background Although patients with COPD often have various comorbidities and symptoms, limited data are available on the contribution of these aspects to health care costs. This study analyzes the association of frequent comorbidities and common symptoms with the annual direct and indirect costs of patients with COPD. Methods Self-reported information on 33 potential comorbidities and symptoms...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the number of annual deaths, as well as the direct and indirect costs of occupational COPD and asthma, in the United States in 1996. DESIGN Aggregation and analysis of national data sets collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, the Health Care Financing Administration, and other government bureaus and private firms. To assess mortality, we reviewed data fr...

objective: type 2 diabetes is amongst the most common chronic illnesses in iran. its prevalence is increasing and it has significant economic importance. the aim of this study was to estimate direct therapeutic and non-therapeutic costs of type 2 diabetes patients referred to the diabetes research center of yazd in 2012. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 250 t...

At present, few discussions have addressed the economic burden of endometriosis. The present study aimed to update two previous reviews and to assess the current body of literature regarding the costs associated with endometriosis. We searched the PubMed, EMBASE and The Cochrane Library databases using “endometriosis”, “economics”, “costs”, “productivity”, “insurance” and “burden” as search ter...

Objective: We sought to evaluate the clinical, economic, and humanistic burden of illness in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Study Design: We performed a literature review. Methods: Our literature search, conducted between 1998 and 2009, included published studies that (1) considered the direct and indirect costs of PsA; reported measures of clinical burden, including mortality, physic...