The economic burden of Tuberculosis in Denmark 1998-2010. Cost analysis in patients and their spouses

Fløe, Andreas; Hilberg, Ole; Wejse, Christian; Løkke, Anders; Ibsen, Rikke; Kjellberg, Jakob; Jennum, Poul

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2014.12.021

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“…TB patients and their households are characterized by increasingly lower employment income, lower employment rate and higher dependency on public transfer, but the socio/economic deterioration is rather a risk factor for TB [22]. In this study 48% were moderate monthly income, other results found in Denmark 53% [23], in Sudan 14.9% [24], this is due to the difference in the standard of living between countries and most of limited income families as well as unemployment and lack of opportunities for work (Figure 1). Figure 1 Relationship among socio-demographical characteristics variables and overall knowledge assessments.…”

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Knowledge of People about the Tuberculosis Infection in the Health Center in Baghdad

Al-Saadawi¹,

Gatea²

2019

Health Sci J

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Background: Tuberculosis is the second-most common cause of death from infectious disease (after those due to HIV/AIDS).Aim: To identify the knowledge of people about TB disease in the health center and to find out any relationships between demographic characteristic and knowledge of people. Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted at one of the health centers of Baghdad Health Department in Al-Rusafa in the Sheikh Omar area for the period from January to 2018. The sample size was 150 people who reviewed the center for treatment and diagnosis. This health center is a public center that provides services for women, children and the elderly. It also has a special section for men. Samples were collected through a preprepared questionnaire containing demographic information and the interview was conducted directly with the auditor. The data analysis through descriptive (frequency, percent, p-value). Results:The highest percentage of the participants 107/150 (71.3%) still in the age groups 20-24 years, the female cases 79/150 (52.7%) were higher more than the male cases 71/150 (47.3%). The distribution of the visitors to the sections of the center, the highest percentage were 42/150 (28%) of the vaccine room followed by the physician room 34/150 (22.7%). Conclusion:We conclude that the highly significant relationship have been found between the department of the center and overall knowledge assessments p=0.004. Not significant relationship has been found between the age groups, gender, marital status, monthly income and overall knowledge assessments at the p=0.145, p=0.750, p=0.073, p=0.777.Recommendation: Educational programs should be carried out to create awareness among the at-risk groups.

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Knowledge of People about the Tuberculosis Infection in the Health Center in Baghdad

Al-Saadawi¹,

Gatea²

2019

Health Sci J

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“…Surprisingly, since 2012 only a few studies on the costs of non-MDR-TB have been performed in other European countries, and even less information has been provided in those on the single components of aggregated costs: DE VRIES et al [16], in their complete country-wide review analysis which included 1138 patients with non-MDR-TB and 20 with MDR/XDR-TB, estimated the per-patient treatment costs of non-MDR-TB at €7850, but did not address indirect costs or other cost components. FLOE et al [17] calculated the excess health-related costs of Danish TB patients and their spouses between 1998 and 2010 by matching 8433 patients with 337 070 controls and 3485 spouses with 17 403 controls, but did not include costs related to contact investigation procedures. Finally, GULLÓN et al [18], in their prospective study on 312 patients in Spain collected between September 2014 and September 2015, estimated the average cost per TB case at €10 262.62 but also included MDR-TB cases and assumed that the 2012 figure of €921.80 provided by DIEL et al [2] as an estimate for the per-patient cost of contact tracing would also apply to Spain, without performing their own calculations.…”

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Cost of illness of non-multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Germany: an update

Diel

Nienhaus

2020

ERJ Open Res

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BackgroundA total of 5429 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) were reported in Germany in 2018; out of the 3780 TB cases for whom drug susceptibility testing was available, the proportion of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) cases was only 3.1% (118 cases).MethodsOn the basis of the current therapy guidelines of the German Central Committee against Tuberculosis, this study estimates the mean direct outpatient and combined in- and outpatient costs per non-MDR-TB patient from the perspective of the German statutory health insurance (SHI) system, together with costs arising from productivity losses and costs due to public health screening for TB in close contacts.ResultsFrom the insurance perspective, the mean outpatient costs (rounded) per case were €1628 for adults and €1179 for children for standard therapy; the mean cost of inpatient treatment amounted to €8626. The mean combined inpatient/outpatient cost was €8756 for adults and €8512 for children. As 95% of all TB patients were adults, the weighted treatment cost per patient in Germany in 2018 was €8746. These are in addition to the mean cost arising from productivity losses (€1839) and, weighted by pulmonary infectivity, cost of contact investigations (€368), coming to a total of €10 953.ConclusionGiven the clear increase in the number of non-MDR-TB cases since 2015, TB is still a disease of significant economic impact in Germany.

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“…The mean cost of managing TB in Russia over 12 months was about US$ 572 per cases (Atun et al, 2006). Meanwhile, the cost in Denmark is higher with direct cost per TB patient was about €10.509 (Fløe et al, 2015). High costs are also borne by immigrant patients in the Netherlands.…”

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The analysis of tuberculosis funds efficiency on high burden countries

Sihaloho

Siregar

2019

jeb

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Tuberculosis remains a major global health problem and ranks as the second leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. Countries devote their budgets to overcome the tuberculosis problem. An efficient use of these budgets will arguably reduce the number of tuberculosis cases and eventually give a positive impact to the economy. This paper aims it aims to estimate the technical efficiency scores of tuberculosis funds on high-burden countries by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. Further, this study analyzes other environmental factors that are crucial to increase the efficiency scores by using Tobit method. DEA shows that some countries exhibit high efficiency scores while others exhibit low efficiency scores. It also informs how countries use funds to maximize their results. Meanwhile, the Tobit estimation shows that taxing cigarettes and committing budgets to control tobaccos have positive marginal effects on technical efficiency scores.

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The economic burden of Tuberculosis in Denmark 1998-2010. Cost analysis in patients and their spouses

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Knowledge of People about the Tuberculosis Infection in the Health Center in Baghdad

Knowledge of People about the Tuberculosis Infection in the Health Center in Baghdad

Cost of illness of non-multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Germany: an update

The analysis of tuberculosis funds efficiency on high burden countries

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