OBJECTIVE To estimate the annual direct and indirect costs of the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer in Brazil. METHODS This cost description study used a "gross-costing" methodology and adopted the health system and societal perspectives. The estimates were grouped into sets of procedures performed in phases of cervical cancer care: the screening, diagnosis and treatment of precance...

Diabetic foot complications result in huge costs for both society and the individual patients. Few reports on the health-economic consequences of diabetic foot infections have been published. In studies considering a wide societal perspective, costs of antibiotics were relatively low, whereas total costs for topical treatment were high relative to the total costs of foot infections. Total direc...

Sischo, W.M., Hird, D.W., Gardner, I.A., Utterback, W.W., Christiansen, K.H., Carpenter, T.E., Danaye-Elmi, C. and Heron, B.R., 1990. Economics of disease occurrence and prevention on California dairy farms: a report and evaluation of data collected for the National Animal Health Monitoring System, 1986-1987. Prey. Vet. Med., 8: 141-156. A stratified random sample of 43 dairy herds in Californi...

BACKGROUND Disease prevention has been claimed to reduce health care costs. However, preventing lethal diseases increases life expectancy and, thereby, indirectly increases the demand for health care. Previous studies have argued that on balance preventing diseases that reduce longevity increases health care costs while preventing non-fatal diseases could lead to health care savings. The object...

BACKGROUND despite evidence on what works in falls prevention, falls in older people remain an important public health problem. AIMS the purpose of this study was to model the impact and cost-effectiveness of a public health falls prevention programme, from the perspective of the health funder. METHODS a decision analytic Markov model compared the health benefits in quality-adjusted life ye...

When risks are interdependent, an agent ́s decision to self-protect affects the loss probabilites faced by others. Due to these externalities, economic agents invest too little in prevention relative to the socially efficient level by ignoring marginal external costs or benefits conferred on others. This paper analyzes an insurance market with externalities of loss prevention. It is shown in a m...

When risks are interdependent, an agent ́s decision to self-protect affects the loss probabilites faced by others. Due to these externalities, economic agents invest too little in prevention relative to the socially efficient level by ignoring marginal external costs or benefits conferred on others. This paper analyzes an insurance market with externalities of loss prevention. It is shown in a m...