Economic Burden of Illness in Canada, 1993

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Table of Contents :

• Publication Information
• Acknowledgements
• Executive Summary
• Recommendations
• Introduction
• Background
• Discussion
• Summary of Results
  • Cost of Illness by Cost Component and Diagnostic Category
  • Distribution of Direct Costs by Diagnostic Category
  • Distribution of Indirect Costs by Diagnostic Category
  • Distribution of Total Costs by Diagnostic Category
  • Distribution by Sex
  • Distribution by Age Group
• Expenditures by Cost Component
  
  • Direct Costs
    • Drug Expenditures
      
    • Physician Care Expenditures
      
    • Hospital Care Expenditures
      
    • Expenditures for Care in Other Institutions
      
    • Health Science Research Expenditures
      
    • Additional Direct Health Expenditures
  • Indirect Costs
    
    • Mortality Costs
      
    • Morbidity Costs Due to Long-term Disability
      
    • Morbidity Costs Due to Short-term Disability
• References (by section)
  
• Appendix 1: Classification of Diseases
  
• Appendix 2: Definitions
  
• Appendix 3: Distribution of Physician Expenditures by Diagnostic Category and Province
  
• Appendix 4: Health Science Research Granting Agencies
  
• Appendix 5: Lifetime Productivity Loss Model
  
• Appendix 6: Weights for Loss of Productivity at Different Levels of Disability
  
• Appendix 7: Comparison of Age and Sex Distributions with Other Data Sources

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Prepared by
Rachel Moore, MSc
Yang Mao, PhD, MSc
Jun Zhang, MSc, MD, MPH
Kathy Clarke, BA, BEd

Environmental Risk Assessment and Case Surveillance Division
Cancer Bureau
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control
Health Protection Branch
Health Canada

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