Objective: To offer cost estimates of urinary incontinence (UI) in the general population based on prospectively collected data. Design: We analysed individual costs in a sample of women with UI who were identified in the framework of a cross-sectional study on the prevalence of UI in women aged...

It is remarkable how health care systems, created over decades and influenced by very different cultures exhibit similar problems. Most health care systems are compartmentalised with managers at margins responding to perverse incentives and seeking to shift patients and costs onto rival...

Objective To contribute to the debate whether extending public coverage of influenza vaccination to healthy workers is cost-effective, particularly in the perspective of EU countries.Methods First, we reviewed the recent international literature on the extension of vaccination to subjects aged...