How much for a broken heart? Costs of cardiovascular disease in Colombia using a person-based approach

Autor: Carlos Arango, Blanca Llorente, Sandra Catalina Camacho, Norman Maldonado, Fabián Cardona, Juan Pablo Bustamante, Enriqueta Cueto
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
Economics
Social Sciences
Broken heart
Disease
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Vascular Medicine
Geographical locations
0302 clinical medicine
Cost of Illness
Health care
Medicine and Health Sciences
Prevalence
Coronary Heart Disease
Public and Occupational Health
Aged
80 and over
Multidisciplinary
Health Care Costs
Middle Aged
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Cardiovascular Diseases
Financial sustainability
Medicine
Female
Research Article
Adult
Science
Control (management)
Cardiology
Colombia
Access to Information
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Health Economics
Environmental health
Humans
Social determinants of health
Aged
Health Care Policy
Insurance
Health
business.industry
South America
Coronary heart disease
Health Care
Low and middle income countries
Business
People and places
Health Expenditures
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Finance
Health Insurance
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 12, p e0208513 (2018)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: The shift of the Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) epidemic, including cardiovascular disease, from developed to Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), creates new challenges in contexts where there is poor information on healthcare costs. Clearly this information is essential for planning, and its relevance is even more valuable as a driver for prevention and control of NCDs. This paper begins to address that handicap by estimating the healthcare cost of Cardiovascular Disease (Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke) in Colombia, using a person-based approach. Results show that the annual healthcare cost of a person with Coronary Heart Disease is between INT$ 4,277 and INT$ 4,846, while the cost for a person with Stroke varies between INT$5,816 and INT$6,616. The expansion of the NCDs epidemic combined with such high costs threatens the financial sustainability of health systems; primary prevention and policies targeting structural and intermediate determinants of health are a promising way to make health systems financially sustainable.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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