Leese, Brenda - In: Social Science & Medicine 35 (1992) 10, pp. 1303-1310
individuals, but also for costs to the National Health Service. Treatment of the disease and its complications takes up 4-5% of … total health care expenditure in the U.K. These costs are dominated by in-patient care for the complications arising from … diabetes. This paper presents a review of studies which have been carried out on the costs of diabetes and its complications …