Cost-of-illness studies: concepts, scopes, and methods.
Cost-of-illness studies: concepts, scopes, and methods.
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DOI：
10.3350/cmh.2014.20.4.327
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发表时间：
2014-12
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Jo C
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Jo C
肝病是死亡的主要原因之一，其不断增加的患病率有可能对个人和整个社会造成重大损害。这种损害对韩国从事经济活动的人口尤其严重。因此，从社会的角度来看，有必要考虑与肝病相关的经济影响，并确定可以减轻这些疾病负担的干预措施。疾病成本研究被认为是医疗保健中的一项重要评估技术。通过衡量和比较疾病给社会造成的经济负担，这类研究可帮助保健决策者制定保健政策和干预措施并确定其优先次序。本文利用经济学理论，介绍了通常适用于大多数疾病病例的各种研究方法，用于估计与死亡率、发病率、残疾和其他疾病特征相关的疾病成本。从成本估算的不同研究视角，对成本的概念和范围进行了沿着分类。通过讨论疾病成本研究的流行病学和经济学基础，报告的结果代表了先进水平的几种评估技术，如成本效益分析，成本效益分析和成本效用分析的有用信息。
Liver diseases are one of the main causes of death, and their ever-increasing prevalence is threatening to cause significant damage both to individuals and society as a whole. This damage is especially serious for the economically active population in Korea. From the societal perspective, it is therefore necessary to consider the economic impacts associated with liver diseases, and identify interventions that can reduce the burden of these diseases. The cost-of-illness study is considered to be an essential evaluation technique in health care. By measuring and comparing the economic burdens of diseases to society, such studies can help health-care decision-makers to set up and prioritize health-care policies and interventions. Using economic theories, this paper introduces various study methods that are generally applicable to most disease cases for estimating the costs of illness associated with mortality, morbidity, disability, and other disease characteristics. It also presents concepts and scopes of costs along with different cost categories from different research perspectives in cost estimations. By discussing the epidemiological and economic grounds of the cost-of-illness study, the reported results represent useful information about several evaluation techniques at an advanced level, such as cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and cost-utility analysis.