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Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer
Cancer is responsible annually for around 27% of all deaths in Spain, 15% of which are caused by colorectal cancer. This malignancy has increased its incidence considerably over the past years, which surely impacts global productivity losses. The evaluation of lost productivity due to premature mort...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33362274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244375 |
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description | Cancer is responsible annually for around 27% of all deaths in Spain, 15% of which are caused by colorectal cancer. This malignancy has increased its incidence considerably over the past years, which surely impacts global productivity losses. The evaluation of lost productivity due to premature mortality provides valuable information that guides healthcare policies into the establishment of prevention and screening programs. The purpose of this study was to assess the productivity losses from premature deaths due to colorectal cancer over a ten year period (2008–2017). The costs derived from premature mortality due to this highly prevalent cancer were estimated using data on mortality, age- and sex-specific reference salaries and unemployment rates in Spain via the human capital approach. Between 2008 and 2017, 15,103 persons died per year from colorectal cancer, representing almost 15% of all cancer-related deaths. Annually, 25,333 years of potential productive life were estimated to be lost on average, 14,992 in males and 10,341 in females. Productivity losses summed €510.8 million in in 2017, and the cancers of the colon and rectum accounted for 9.6% of cancer-related productivity losses in 2017 in Spain. Colorectal cancer has an important weight in terms of productivity losses within the Spanish population, consequently, prevention and early detection programmes should be promoted and implemented to achieve significant reductions in mortality and productivity losses. |
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spelling | pubmed-77578662021-01-06 Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer Darbà, Josep Marsà, Alicia PLoS One Research Article Cancer is responsible annually for around 27% of all deaths in Spain, 15% of which are caused by colorectal cancer. This malignancy has increased its incidence considerably over the past years, which surely impacts global productivity losses. The evaluation of lost productivity due to premature mortality provides valuable information that guides healthcare policies into the establishment of prevention and screening programs. The purpose of this study was to assess the productivity losses from premature deaths due to colorectal cancer over a ten year period (2008–2017). The costs derived from premature mortality due to this highly prevalent cancer were estimated using data on mortality, age- and sex-specific reference salaries and unemployment rates in Spain via the human capital approach. Between 2008 and 2017, 15,103 persons died per year from colorectal cancer, representing almost 15% of all cancer-related deaths. Annually, 25,333 years of potential productive life were estimated to be lost on average, 14,992 in males and 10,341 in females. Productivity losses summed €510.8 million in in 2017, and the cancers of the colon and rectum accounted for 9.6% of cancer-related productivity losses in 2017 in Spain. Colorectal cancer has an important weight in terms of productivity losses within the Spanish population, consequently, prevention and early detection programmes should be promoted and implemented to achieve significant reductions in mortality and productivity losses. Public Library of Science 2020-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7757866/ /pubmed/33362274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244375 Text en © 2020 Darbà, Marsà http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Darbà, Josep Marsà, Alicia Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer |
title | Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer |
title_full | Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer |
title_short | Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer |
title_sort | evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33362274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244375 |
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