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Table 5
Table 5
Social costs for 13 diseases in Denmark calculated according to the cost-of - illness method. Figures are presented as millions of DKK (1992 price index). |
|
Direct costs(1) |
Indirect costs(2) |
Costs |
| Disease |
Hospital |
Primary(3) |
Total |
s%(4) |
r%(5) |
Sick-leaver(6) |
Pension(7) |
Death |
Total |
s%(4) |
r%(5) |
Total |
s%(4) |
Rank |
| Musculoskeletal disease |
1.848 |
1.295 |
3.143 |
8,4 |
14,8 |
5.127 |
12.891 |
112 |
18.130 |
17,7 |
85,2 |
21.273 |
15,2 |
2 |
| Cancer |
3.234 |
485 |
3.719 |
9,9 |
23,1 |
953 |
3.320 |
8.088 |
12.361 |
12,0 |
76,9 |
16.080 |
11,5 |
4 |
| Respiratory disease |
1.617 |
1.145 |
2.762 |
7,4 |
39,5 |
847 |
2.310 |
1.079 |
4.236 |
4,1 |
60,5 |
6.998 |
5,0 |
7 |
| Injuries/accidents |
2.772 |
578 |
3.350 |
9,0 |
27,1 |
4.067 |
2.339 |
2.615 |
9.021 |
8,8 |
72,9 |
12.371 |
8,8 |
5 |
| Diseases of the digestive tract |
1.848 |
680 |
2.528 |
6,8 |
36,7 |
1.907 |
909 |
1.538 |
4.354 |
4,2 |
63,3 |
6.882 |
4,9 |
8 |
| Nutritional and metabolic diseases |
924 |
400 |
1.324 |
3,5 |
40,7 |
0 |
1.265 |
668 |
1.933 |
1,9 |
59,3 |
3.257 |
2,3 |
10 |
| Psychiatric disease |
3.446 |
736 |
4.182 |
11,2 |
14,4 |
2.224 |
22.122 |
540 |
24.886 |
24,2 |
85,6 |
29.068 |
20,7 |
1 |
| Diseases of the nervous system, eyes, ears |
924 |
978 |
1.902 |
5,1 |
28,0 |
1.144 |
3.249 |
503 |
4.896 |
4,8 |
72,0 |
6,798 |
4,9 |
9 |
| Diseases of the urinary tract and reproductive organs |
924 |
605 |
1.529 |
4,1 |
60,3 |
634 |
281 |
91 |
1.006 |
1,0 |
39,7 |
2.535 |
1,8 |
12 |
| Infectious diseases |
693 |
242 |
935 |
2,5 |
38,3 |
212 |
860 |
432 |
1.504 |
1,5 |
61,7 |
2.439 |
1,7 |
13 |
| Heart and vascular disease |
4.620 |
1.305 |
5.925 |
15,8 |
33,2 |
1.843 |
4.457 |
5.595 |
11.895 |
11,6 |
66.8 |
17.820 |
12,7 |
3 |
| Diseases related to pregnancy |
1.617 |
550 |
2.167 |
5.8 |
81,5 |
4.87 |
3 |
3 |
493 |
0,5 |
18,5 |
2.660 |
1,9 |
11 |
| Other diseases(8) |
2.078 |
1.866 |
3944 |
10,5 |
33.1 |
1.697 |
1.105 |
5.169 |
7.971 |
7,8 |
66,9 |
11.915 |
8,5 |
6 |
| Total |
26.545 |
10.865 |
37.410 |
100 |
26,7 |
21.142 |
55.111 |
26.433 |
102.686 |
100 |
73,3 |
140.096 |
100 |
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| (1) Treatment costs included only resources used in the health care sector as defined in Denmark. In other words, costs related to handicap dwellings and other social costs are not included |
| (2) The present value of production loss, discounted by a factor of 4%. |
| (3) Includes only general practitioners, specialist practices, physiotherapeutic treatment, chiropractic, and the usage of medicine outside of the hospital sector. Costs include both public health insurance costs as well as the direct costs paid by the individual patients. The diagnostic classification is the one used in 1989 |
| (4) Column percentages, in other words, disease specific costs in relation to total column costs. |
| (5) Row percentages, in other words, disease specific distribution of costs of both direct and indirect costs. |
| (6) Of non-permanent character, the disease distribution is from 1981 |
| (7) Permanently reduced ability to work or total loss of ability to work; disease distribution is the average of 1989-91. |
| (8) Includes production costs of 2.3 billion Danish DKK related to suicide, which is not included under injuries/accidents or under psychiatric diseases. |
| Source: Nastra Recommendations nr. 1284, 1995. |
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