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A Cost-of-illness Study : of skin, soft tissue, bone and lung infections caused by Staphylococci

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-7051
Date January 2006
CreatorsHöjvall, Jessica
PublisherUppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala : Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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