The essay investigates the economic burden of skin, soft tissue, bone and lung infections in Sweden 2003. The cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, is used in the estimation. A prevalence approach and a top-down method were chosen for direct as well as indirect costs. Also there is a discussion concerning health economic aspects of antibiotic resistance and evidence of the increasing costs because of it. The lack of data leads to a result within a large interval of uncertainty; the direct costs are estimated to 1 072 million SEK and indirect costs are estimated to 4 655 million SEK.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-7051 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Höjvall, Jessica |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala : Nationalekonomiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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