[The health costs of alcoholism]. / Costes sanitarios del alcoholismo.
Aten Primaria
; 22(5): 279-84, 1998 Sep 30.
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| ID: mdl-9835133
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the economic effect in terms of health costs of alcohol abuse in Spain.DESIGN:
The most up-to-date available, secondary sources of information were used. The period for the costs calculation was a natural year, with the prices adjusted to pesetas in 1996. The focus was based on the prevalence of cases per period. All the information referred to the whole of Spain.SETTING:
Health costs were broken down into out-patient attendance, hospital emergencies, admissions, treatment at special centres and other health expenditure. MEASUREMENTS AND MAINRESULTS:
The total health cost attributable to alcoholism was 177,084 million pesetas, broken down as follows a) cost of hospital admissions 93,644 million pesetas (52.88%); b) cost of out-patient attendance 34,600 million (19.53%); c) cost of treatment at special centres 18,029 million (10.18%); d) cost of hospital emergencies 10,481 million (5.91%); and e) other health expenditure 20,330 million pesetas (11.48%).CONCLUSIONS:
The figures arrived at do not cover the total cost of alcohol abuse, since a conservative approach was adopted. They stand as a minimum of the expenditure in our country. Some are direct costs on health authorities, whereas others can be managed as a cost-opportunity problem.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Custos de Cuidados de Saúde
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Alcoolismo
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Aten Primaria
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article