Economic Burden of Illness in Canada, 1993

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

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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