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expenditure accounts and determine the costs of selected diseases using various data sources. A major challenge in this context is … the allocation of drug costs to specific groups of diseases. Many drugs that are prescribed have been approved for the … cost of illness accounts and a new procedure developed by the AOK Research Institute (WIdO) for allocating the costs of …
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Our assessment shows the magnitude of the economic impact of occupational respiratory cancers. It allows comparisons between countries and provides valuable information for policy-makers responsible for defining public health priorities. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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). We aimed to describe the epidemiology of HZ/PHN and to estimate HZ/PHN-related costs in the German statutory health … HZ-case caused on average €210 and €376 of costs from the payer and societal perspective, respectively. The development … of PHN generated additional costs of €1,123 (€1,645 societal perspective). Total annual HZ/PHN-related costs were …
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Expenditures for HIV-infection are driven mainly by drug costs. We identified several clinical variables influencing … the costs of HIV-treatment. This information could assist policymakers when allocating limited health care resources to …
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The per-patient cost of epilepsy is substantial. Thus, even though the prevalence of the illness is relatively small, the aggregated cost that epilepsy incurs on society is significant. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012
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The continuum of RMNCH covers a large portion of the lifespan from birth through the reproductive age. From a methodological perspective, an ideal COI study would clearly describe the perspective of analysis and, hence, the cost items (direct or indirect), cost collection procedure, discounting,...
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Paying for health care may exclude poor people. Burkina Faso adopted the DOTS strategy implementing "free care" for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment. This should increase universal health coverage and help to overcome social and economic barriers to health access.
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lost days of work, to estimates the total costs of illness (COI) borne by a typical individual due to airborne diseases …. The results of this survey provide a lower bound for the health costs borne by the urban population of Beijing due to air … quite substantially from reducing air pollution in terms of health costs: if it could completely eliminate pollution, the …
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