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The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study
Infection is a major cause of cancers. We estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to infection in 2014 in Korea, where cancer causing infection is prevalent, but the economic burden of it has never been examined. Cancer patients were defined as those having made medical claims as recor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086534 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207592 |
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author | Nguyen, Thi Xuan Trinh Han, Minji Ki, Moran Kim, Young Ae Oh, Jin-Kyoung |
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description | Infection is a major cause of cancers. We estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to infection in 2014 in Korea, where cancer causing infection is prevalent, but the economic burden of it has never been examined. Cancer patients were defined as those having made medical claims as recorded by the National Health Insurance Service, which is a mandatory insurance for all citizen. We multiplied the costs by the population-attributable fraction for each type of cancer. The study included direct and indirect costs, where direct costs comprised direct medical and non-medical costs of inpatients and outpatients, while indirect costs were estimated by identifying future income loss due to premature death, productivity loss during hospitalization/outpatient visits, and job loss. In 2014, there were 100,054 infection-related cancer patients, accounting for 10.7% of all Korean cancer cases for that year. Direct costs of cancers associated with infection stood at nearly USD 676.9 million, while indirect costs were much higher at USD 2.57 billion. The average expenditure of a typical patient was USD 32,435. Economic burden of cancers attributable to infection is substantial in Korea, accounting for 0.23% of the national gross domestic product and 1.36% of national healthcare expenditure in 2014. |
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spelling | pubmed-75939342020-10-30 The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study Nguyen, Thi Xuan Trinh Han, Minji Ki, Moran Kim, Young Ae Oh, Jin-Kyoung Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Infection is a major cause of cancers. We estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to infection in 2014 in Korea, where cancer causing infection is prevalent, but the economic burden of it has never been examined. Cancer patients were defined as those having made medical claims as recorded by the National Health Insurance Service, which is a mandatory insurance for all citizen. We multiplied the costs by the population-attributable fraction for each type of cancer. The study included direct and indirect costs, where direct costs comprised direct medical and non-medical costs of inpatients and outpatients, while indirect costs were estimated by identifying future income loss due to premature death, productivity loss during hospitalization/outpatient visits, and job loss. In 2014, there were 100,054 infection-related cancer patients, accounting for 10.7% of all Korean cancer cases for that year. Direct costs of cancers associated with infection stood at nearly USD 676.9 million, while indirect costs were much higher at USD 2.57 billion. The average expenditure of a typical patient was USD 32,435. Economic burden of cancers attributable to infection is substantial in Korea, accounting for 0.23% of the national gross domestic product and 1.36% of national healthcare expenditure in 2014. MDPI 2020-10-19 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7593934/ /pubmed/33086534 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207592 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Nguyen, Thi Xuan Trinh Han, Minji Ki, Moran Kim, Young Ae Oh, Jin-Kyoung The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study |
title | The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study |
title_full | The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study |
title_fullStr | The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study |
title_short | The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infection in the Republic of Korea: A Prevalence-Based Study |
title_sort | economic burden of cancers attributable to infection in the republic of korea: a prevalence-based study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086534 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207592 |
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