background: high prevalence and increasing rate of asthmatic patients around the word witnesses the high burden of asthma. we have limited data on asthma burden and economic costs in iran. this study aimed to find direct and indirect economic costs of asthma and their association with some background factors in one of the referral tertiary centers for adult patients with asthma. methods: we sur...

evaluating the costs of a treatment begs the question: why assess a treatment economically? Professor Guest’s response to this question sums it up well: “there have to be some criteria against which governments decide to allocate limited resources and money is one such criterion.” similarly, tan et al5 comment that economic evaluation “can play a useful role in assisting decision-makers, manage...

BACKGROUND This study aimed at identifying components of the household health costs. METHODS This study was a qualitative research conducted in two main phases. The first phase consisted of interviews with sample households selected in eight provinces of Iran. They were to identify components of the household health costs. In the second phase, components were determined as direct, indirect an...