OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to develop a population-based simulation model of osteoarthritis (OA) in Canada that can be used to quantify the future health and economic burden of OA under a range of scenarios for changes in the OA risk factors and treatments. In this article we describe the overall structure of the model, sources of data, derivation of key input parameters for the ep...

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Not only are work, social, and daily living affected for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias, but caring for these individuals is a long-term progressive burden. In Canada, while the projected number of dementia cases is expected to increase 2.3 times to 1.1 million people by 2038, the projected associated economic burden attributed to dementia is expected to increas...

Over 100 articles related to stroke were found in a search through a database dedicated to indexing all literature with original data involving the Malaysian population between years 2000 and 2014. Stroke is emerging as a major public health problem. The development of the National Stroke Registry in the year 2009 aims to coordinate and improve stroke care, as well as to generate more data on v...

Heart failure (HF) remains a major public health problem that affects 5 million patients in the United States.1 HF is the leading cause of hospitalization for people 65 years of age and older, and rates of hospital readmission within 6 months range from 25% to 50%.1,2 The personal burden of HF includes debilitating symptoms, frequent rehospitalizations, and high rates of mortality.2 HF also pos...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and impact of recurrent workplace injury and disease over the period 1995-2008. DESIGN Population-based cohort study using data from the state workers' compensation system database. SETTING State of Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS A total of 448 868 workers with an accepted workers' compensation claim between 1 January 1995 and 31 December 2008 were ...

Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some communities regardless of whether they have household members abroad or not; however, in other com...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of developing e-learning and to examine reasons for adopting or rejecting e-learning as an alternative way to conduct continuing education (CE) for public health nurses (PHNs). A nationwide-based cross-sectional study was conducted with a randomly selected sample of 233 PHNs in Taiwan. A structured questionnaire was used to collect dat...

The economic burden of cognitive impairment and dementia cannot be ignored. In 2000, dementia was the third most costly health condition to care for in the United States, with annual costs estimated at $100 billion (in 1997 US prices). Another study calculated that the mean annual costs for dementia care is at 28,000 per patient.3 The direct costs in the UK of Alzheimer’s disease were estimated...

In the April-June 2014 edition of the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, Davis et al1 published a comparison of clinical and economic outcomes for colectomies between standard laparoscopic and robot-assisted procedures. This study included 25 000 segmental colectomies, of which about 2% were carried out robotically. Robotic procedures showed a significantly higher economic bur...