PURPOSE Asthma-related morbidity and mortality are increasing, and the financial burden imposed by this condition will substantially increase. Nevertheless, little information is available regarding the nature and magnitude of the burden due to asthma at the national level. This study was conducted to characterize the financial burden imposed by asthma in the Republic of Korea at the national l...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY To perform a cost-of-illness study of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in Switzerland from a societal perspective, evaluating direct costs, production losses and intangible costs in terms of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) lost. METHODS A bottom-up incidence-based approach was used. Data concerning patients with one or more ACS events were extracted from a national hosp...

AIMS It is increasingly important to determine the economic consequences of diseases considering the policy of limited health-care budgets. In this study we evaluated the annual direct and indirect costs of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and we tried also to identify any cost predictors. METHODS We studied 106 patients (103 female, 3 male), 57 affected by Limited Systemic Sclerosis (LSSc) and 49 af...

Inspectors first discovered chemical mixtures leaking from a Freedom Industries storage tank into the Elk River on 9 January 2014. The Elk River provides drinking water for some 300,000 Charleston-area residents, who for several days relied on water that was trucked in by the National Guard and other groups. The disruption cost local businesses more than $61 million, according to preliminary es...

Because firms invest heavily in R&D, software, brands, and other intangible assets—at a rate close to that of tangible assets—changes in measured GDP, which does not include all intangible investments, understate the actual changes in total output. If changes in the labor input are more precisely measured, then it is possible to observe little change in measured total factor productivity (TFP) ...

To meet the economic challenges faced in the healthcare industry and to continue to provide low cost and high quality services; healthcare organizations and private hospitals in particular are striving to control operational costs. Thus, considering cost is essential in order to accomplish this. Costing should promote cost effectiveness of medical practice, maximize the resources available to t...

BACKGROUND We previously reported that indirect and intangible costs burden households with a food allergic adult. We now extend our investigation to households with food allergic children and adolescents. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to estimate direct, indirect, and intangible costs of food allergy in households with a child and/or adolescent with objectively diagnosed allergy ...

An estimate of the benefits which would result from a ban on the sale of non-pasteurized milk in Scotland has been assessed by costing a recent outbreak of milk-borne salmonellosis in the Grampian Region. The cost of such a ban would not exceed the benefits under any but the most severe assumptions about the values attached to intangible benefits.

Intangible Cultural Heritage is of comparatively high value in culture, economy, science and tourism, which is at its peak of development and utilization. Intangible cultural heritage needs preservation, so the development and utilization of the digital storage of intangible cultural heritage are a subject of theoretical and practical values. Among the various complicated types of intangible cu...

Intangible capital has arguably become an important component of corporate value. However, it is still an open question whether uncertainty associated with investment in intangible capital is higher or lower than physical capital. We estimate the value of intangible capital in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model that features capital adjustment costs, investment-speci c technological...