Essays about: "burden of illness"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words burden of illness.

1. 6. Grey matters: - a cost study of functional decline and brain disorders in senior citizens

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Carolina Lindholm; [2009]
   Keywords : Health economics; Cost of illness; Ageing; Population based; GLM;

   Abstract : The world’s population is growing older and getting older. This implies larger numbers of persons with dementia and other disorders prevalent in the elderly – and an increasing cost burden to society. READ MORE

3. 7. A Cost-of-illness Study : of skin, soft tissue, bone and lung infections caused by Staphylococci

   University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jessica Höjvall; [2006]
   Keywords : Cost-of-illness; Staphalycocci infections; ICD-10; antibiotic resistance;

   Abstract : The essay investigates the economic burden of skin, soft tissue, bone and lung infections in Sweden 2003. The cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, is used in the estimation. A prevalence approach and a top-down method were chosen for direct as well as indirect costs. READ MORE

4. 8. The societal burden of alcohol misuse: literature review and cost of alcohol related hospitalisation in Skåne, Sweden - 2003

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Johan Jarl; [2005]
   Keywords : Health economics; Alcohol; Cost-of-illness; Hospitalisation; Skåne; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This essay aims to estimate the cost of hospitalisation in 2003 for Region Skåne for diseases fully attributable to alcohol. An included review of cost-of-illness studies of societal costs of alcohol misuse reaches the conclusions that comparability between studies has increased in recent years as a result, among others, of the establishing of international guidelines. READ MORE

5. 9. The right to health and right to intellectual property in the EU. Analysis of the internal and external policies.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Beata Faracik; [2002]
   Keywords : Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : It is very common nowadays to speak of an ''information society'' in which control of information or information based knowledge has replaced control over matter as an ultimate source of economic power. The intellectual creations protected through patents, trade marks, copyrights etc constitute often a huge part of the companies' intangible assets. READ MORE