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Prediction Models for Individual-Level Healthcare Costs Associated with Cardiovascular Events in the UK
ConclusionsThese individual-level healthcare cost prediction models could inform assessments of the value of health technologies and policies to reduce cardiovascular and other disease risks and healthcare costs. An accompanying Excel calculator is available to facilitate the use of the models.
Source: PharmacoEconomics - February 23, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

The impact of seven major noncommunicable diseases on direct medical costs, absenteeism, and presenteeism in Gulf Cooperation Council countries
CONCLUSION: The economic burden of noncommunicable diseases in Gulf Cooperation Council countries is substantial, suggesting that successful preventive interventions have the potential to improve both population health and reduce costs. Further research is needed to capture a broader array of noncommunicable diseases and to develop more precise estimates.PMID:34138664 | DOI:10.1080/13696998.2021.1945242
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - June 17, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric Andrew Finkelstein Jesse D Malkin Drishti Baid Ada Alqunaibet Khaled Mahdi Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Thani Buthaina Abdulla Bin Belaila Ebrahim Al Nawakhtha Saleh Alqahtani Sameh El-Saharty Christopher H Herbst Source Type: research

Health-related quality of life and perceived health status of Turkish population
ConclusionsThe perceived health level and HRQOL is worse in women, in older age groups, in people from lower socioeconomical status.
Source: Quality of Life Research - March 20, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Impact of nine chronic conditions for US adults aged 65 years and older: an application of a hybrid estimator of quality-adjusted life years throughout remainder of lifetime
Conclusions This study presents a QALY estimator for respondents in the NHANES-Linked Mortality File and demonstrates the utility of this method to other follow-up data. Continued application of our method would enable the burden of disease to be compared for a range of health conditions and risk factors in the ongoing effort to improve population health.
Source: Quality of Life Research - January 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Health care costs attributable to overweight calculated in a standardized way for three European countries
This article presents a tool to calculate health care costs attributable to overweight in a comparable and standardized way. The purpose is to describe the methodological principles of the tool and to put it into use by calculating and comparing the costs attributable to overweight for The Netherlands, Germany and Czech Republic. The tool uses a top-down and prevalence-based approach, consisting of five steps. Step one identifies overweight-related diseases and age- and gender-specific relative risks. Included diseases are ischemic heart disease, stroke, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, colorectal cancer, postmenopa...
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - November 28, 2014 Category: Health Management Source Type: research