BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a disabling mental disorder with high prevalence and that usually  requires long-term follow-up and expensive lifelong treatment. The cost of schizophrenia treatment consumes a significant amount of the health services' budget in western countries. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to find out about the costs related to schizophrenia across different european coun...

BACKGROUND Activity Based Costing (ABC) is one of the new methods began appearing as a costing methodology in the 1990's. It calculates cost price by determining the usage of resources. In this study, ABC method was used for calculating cost price of remedial services in hospitals. METHODS To apply ABC method, Shahid Faghihi Hospital was selected. First, hospital units were divided into three...

Even if varicella is generally considered a harmless disease in childhood, severe complications may occur. We examined varicella skin complications (VSCs) in hospitalized immunologically healthy children, over a nine-year period. We also systematically analyzed previous reports to calculate the rate of VSCs in the literature. VSCs occurred in 16.4% of children hospitalized for varicella. This f...

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is now recognized as a major and escalating public health problem. The costs of this syndrome, both in economic and personal terms, are considerable. The prevalence of CHF is 1-2% and appears to be increasing, in part because of ageing of the population. Economic analyses of CHF should include both direct and indirect costs of care. Healthcare expenditure on CHF in d...

Asthma is increasing worldwide secondary to both increasing access to healthcare with more and more asthma recognition and to urbanization. Asthma in children is different from adult with multiple phenotypes and variable natural course. It is frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated that result in poor quality of life in children and their parents. Asthma in children has significant socio-eco...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the direct medical costs of falls in the population of community-dwelling elderly. METHODS Data from a sample of 4,025 consumers from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were used to make estimates that were representative of the population of civilian, noninstitutionalized elderly in the United States. RESULTS In 1997, 9% of the noninstitutionalized elderly popu...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem. In all societies, the disease affects the poorest individuals the worst. A new post-2015 global TB strategy has been developed by WHO, which explicitly highlights the key role of universal health coverage (UHC) and social protection. One of the proposed targets is that "No TB affected families experience catastrophic costs due to T...

s and Reports 149 munication and cooperation about AIDS, and the Director-General announced that 1 December 1988 would be “World AIDS Day.” (See pp. 234-236 in this issue for a report on the summit.) WHO/United Nations Development Program (UNDP) alliance to combat AIDS. To ensure the best possible coordination among all those working to combat AIDS, to address the concerns of many countries abo...

Plants can prepare for future herbivore attack through a process called priming. Primed plants respond more strongly and/or faster to insect attack succeeding the priming event than nonprimed plants, while the energetic costs of priming are relatively low. To better understand the evolution of priming, we developed a simulation model, partly parameterized for Brassica nigra plants, to explore h...

Tuberculosis (TB) affects mostly economically active population in underdeveloped and developing countries, therefore TB can have far reaching economic and social consequences among infected people and their household members. The objectives of this study were to estimate the household expenditure before and during the course of disease, to explore the direct and indirect cost burden of tubercu...