Economics of diabetes mellitus: evidence of the disease's social cost for Brazilian data in 2008

Materials and methods A Binary Probit model ws used to measure the participation in work force and a two-stage Heckman model to measure worked h and productivity. Each model is estimated separately for both gender individuals, with and without disease, according three distinct definitions for DM: Restrict, Broad and Comorbidities. To capture the counterfactual effect, the model was calculated for ill and healthy individuals. The difference of both values exhibited the losses, which were aggregate to the whole population and the total cost was estimated.