Cost of Illness in the Netherlands: description, comparison and projection
Year: 2001
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Over the past decades health economics has emerged as a new scientific discipline.\\nFrom the very beginning the field has continued to expand and take on increasing\\nsignificance. An important focus is on the economic evaluation of health care\\nfacilities withln the area of Medical Technology Assessment (MTA) or Health\\nTechnology Assessment (HTA). Other topics studied by health economists regard\\namong others the demand for care, the role of health insurance, the industrial\\norganisation of the health care sector and the international comparison of health\\ncare systems.\\nCost-of-illness (COI) studies have also attracted the attention of health\\neconomists. Since the pioneering work of Dorothy Rice in the United States in the\\nSixties [Rice 1966], cost-of-illness data have been published for several countries.\\nThere is, however, some controversy about the results. Physicians and\\npolicymakers frequently ask what the often very large financial estimates for costs\\nof specific diseases mean and how reliable, valid and useful they are. This thesis\\nfocuses on COI studies. We will start with a few definitions [Rice 1994].
Author: Johan Polder
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1504692576