Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most common chronic diseases, affecting about 15% of the western population. This disease is connected with a significant health care burden having direct annual costs of about 5.8 billion dollars (Anand, 2004). These direct costs do not cover other important expenses to the individual, the community and society, such as lost time from work and / or sc...

The plan mentions that ‘In the European Union alone, a subset of drug-resistant bacteria is responsible annually for some 25 000 deaths, with extra healthcare costs and lost productivity due to antimicrobial resistance amounting to at least €1500 million [2].’ The plan provides a framework for national action plans to combat antimicrobial resistance. Through adoption of the plan, WHO member sta...

What Is Productivity? In primary productivity of plants, solar energy is transformed to biomass. Using photosynthesis, green plants convert solar energy, carbon dioxide, and water to glucose and other carbon-based compounds and eventually to plant tissue. Gross primary productivity is the product of that photosynthetic fixation of carbon, whereas net primary productivity is the carbon that is a...

CONTEXT Common pain conditions appear to have an adverse effect on work, but no comprehensive estimates exist on the amount of productive time lost in the US workforce due to pain. OBJECTIVE To measure lost productive time (absence and reduced performance due to common pain conditions) during a 2-week period. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study using survey data from the American Produ...

Background: Economic burden due to premature mortality has a negative impact not only in health systems but also wider society. The aim of this study was estimate the potential years work lost (PYWL) and productivity costs Chagas disease Colombia from 2010 2017. Methods: National data on (underlying cause death) were obtained Administrative Department Statistics between 2017, which mentioned de...

After the global financial crisis, slowdowns of total factor productivity (TFP), often measured as Solow residual, have been observed across major countries. This study offers an explanation for this by focusing on Japan's crises during 1990s. We first incorporate credit constraints, intermediaries (FIs) and firms, input–output structure into standard New Keynesian model, show that model delive...