 Prevention of long-term work absence by planning and anticipating return to work in co-operation between different stakeholders is crucial INTRODUCTION Managing long-term work absence due to sickness continues to be a priority of many EU-countries. Direct and indirect costs to organisations and companies are extremely high. These costs include sick pay, social insurance payments, costs of tem...

Medical organizations could and should be contributing to improving the health and sustainability of individuals, families, businesses, communities and governments. Their failure is reflected in the continual rise of health care costs along with the incidence of chronic diseases and the suffering and poor quality of life they beget. The situation is driving large nonmedical organizations to ins...

PURPOSE To project the clinical and economic benefits of omega-3 supplements for prevention of secondary (repeat) cardiovascular events in U.S. males. DESIGN Decision-analytic model. METHODOLOGY Model clinical probabilities (rates of fatal myocardial infarction [MI] and cardiovascular death) were based on published trials. Costs were derived from standard U.S. sources. Outcomes include deat...

Many socio-economic factors and health care system related issues impact the outcome of diabetes and consequently its costs and vice versa. Factors that influence delay in diagnosis also determine complication rates and thus costs. Presence and severity of complications as well as co-morbid conditions are the most important determinants of treatment and monitoring regimen as well as the need fo...

OBJECTIVE Estimates of healthcare costs associated with HIV infection would provide valuable insight for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of possible prevention interventions. We evaluate the additional lifetime healthcare cost incurred due to living with HIV. METHODS We used a stochastic computer simulation model to project the distribution of lifetime outcomes and costs of men-who-have-sex...

BACKGROUND To quantify the contribution of locally implemented prevention programmes in contributing to reductions in treatment and care costs by averting HIV infections among those who inject drugs this study calculates net financial benefit of providing harm reduction programmes using information from services being implemented in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China ( between 2...

There many open questions concerning the concept of primary prevention in FM. Diagnostic or classification criteria are not universally accepted, and this leads to difficulties in establishing the onset and duration of the disease. In the case of FM, primary prevention may consist of the immediate care of acute pain or treatment for affective disturbances as we do not have any specific laborato...

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the economic value of the tsutsugamushi disease prevention program and to suggest whether to abolish or expand this program. A cost-benefit analysis was conducted to evaluate the economic feasibility of this prevention program. We collected cost data from 25 public health centers (PHCs) and the medical insurance data for all tsutsugamushi patient...

BACKGROUND Although the targeting of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention to high-risk populations has been widely discussed, its benefits have not been quantified. METHODS This analysis of cost-effectiveness combines an HIV epidemic model, target population scenarios, and data on the cost and impact of prevention. RESULTS The number of HIV infections averted in 5 years with $1 mil...

BACKGROUND Global resource needs estimation is a critical part of addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To generate these estimates knowledge of costs and cost structures is required. The evidence base for costs of HIV prevention programmes is limited. Even less is known about the existence of economies scale and whether, as economic theory suggests, average costs form a 'u'-shaped curve as scale i...