Download or read book The Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada January 2004 The Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report is based on the template, methodologies, and data sources used in GPI Atlantic's earlier report on the Cost of Chronic Disease in Nova Scotia, and is produced with express permission of GPI Atlantic. [...] According to Health Canada's Economic Burden of Illness in Canada 1993, diabetes accounts for 43.3% of the direct costs of all these endocrine and related disorders.28 According to Katzmarzyk et al., type 2 diabetes constitutes 92.5% of all diabetes cases, and would therefore constitute about 40% of the direct costs of all endocrine and related disorders.29 For the purposes 25 Birmingham, C. Laird [...] When these additional categories and costs of chronic illness are added to the seven diagnostic categories in Table 2, the full costs of chronic diseases to the Canadian health care system are likely to match the estimates of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which attribute 60% of all health care costs in the U. S. to chronic diseases. [...] A three-year follow-up showed that, while metformin helped reduce the incidence of diabetes compared to the placebo, lifestyle intervention was the most effective method, reducing the incidence of diabetes by 58% compared to 31% for metformin.69 Endocrine and related disease costs as a percentage of the total economic burden of illness range from 2.6% for Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba to [...] As a percentage of the total economic burden of illness in each province, chronic respiratory diseases range between 2.3% of total costs in most provinces to 2.5% in Nova Scotia (Figure 12).74 Chronic respiratory illnesses therefore account for about the same proportion of the total economic burden of illness across the country with no distinctive patterns among the different regions.
Download or read book The Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada written by Michael Mirolla and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic cost of chronic disease in Canada 1995 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada 1995-2003 Jayadeep Patra, Svetlana Popova, Jürgen Rehm, Susan Bondy, Robynne Flint & Norman Giesbrecht Prepared for the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance and the Ontario Public Health Association March 2007 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The preparation of this report was made possible through the financial support of the Public Health Agency of Canada to [...] The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the perspectives of the Public Health Agency of Canada. [...] The three indirect cost components included in this report were: cost of years of life lost due to premature death (mortality costs), and the value of activity days lost due to short-term and long-term disability (morbidity costs due to long and short-term disability). [...] Appendix 1 provides the World Health Organization's list of chronic disease and the ten tables provide the Canadian data the form the empirical basis of this report. [...] The intent of this report is to provide a comprehensive overview of the distribution of direct and indirect costs of chronic diseases in Canada.
Download or read book Chronic Diseases in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Health Ethics Cases Spanning the Globe written by Drue H. Barrett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.
Download or read book Chronic Condition written by Jeffrey Simpson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare is the third rail of Canadian politics. Touch it and you die. Every politician knows this truism, which is why no one wants to debate it. Privately, many of them understand that the health-care system, which costs about $200 billion a year in public and private money, cannot continue as it is—increasingly ill-adapted to an aging population with public costs growing faster than government revenues. In Chronic Condition, Jeffrey Simpson explores the options we have to grapple with this growing problem, including cuts in non-health-care spending, tax increases, various types of privatization, and finding savings within health-care itself. His research takes him to emergency rooms and private clinics across Canada as he listens to health professionals, researchers, and administrators outline the challenges they face. Simpson examines the tenets of the medicare system that Canadians cling to so passionately. Combining impressive research, political acumen, and a sense of civic urgency, Chronic Condition breaks the silence about the huge changes and real choices that Canadians face. It is a catalyst for a much-needed public debate about an essential Canadian service.
Download or read book Economic Burden of Illness in Canada 1993 written by Rachel Moore and published by Environmental Risk Assessment and Case Surveillance Division. This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report uses the prevalence-based human capital approach to translate morbidity and premature mortality data into direct and indirect costs to affected individuals and Canadian society. Direct costs include drug expenditures, physician and hospital care costs, and health science research expenditures. Indirect costs include mortality costs and morbidity costs due to short- and long-term disability. Most of the costs were also classified by diagnostic category such as cardiovascular diseases, injuries, and cancer. A portion of the costs of illness could be categorized by sex and age.
Download or read book Cost Risk Analysis for Chronic Lung Disease in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides forecasts of chronic lung disease rates and associated economic burden to the year 2030, to help policy-makers determine effective chronic lung health policies and set priorities among competing options.
Download or read book Why Health Care Renewal Matters written by Health Council of Canada and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inequalities in health outcomes in Canada are evident when we look at chronic health conditions, diabetes in particular. Aboriginal communities and lower-income people in Canada are at particularly high risk for developing a range of chronic health conditions including diabetes. Depending on the age group, First Nations adults are two to eight times more likely to have diabetes than Canadians generally, and they also have substantially higher rates of serious complications from diabetes, including kidney failure, foot amputations, heart disease and infectious disease. In this report, the Health Council profiles an initiative in northern Manitoba - the Island Lake Regional Renal Health Program - developed in response to the high rates of kidney failure in a remote First Nations region. And we take a look at the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program which, after 12 years of sustained effort, has put the brakes to the persistent increase in new cases of diabetes in that Mohawk First Nation community near Montreal. The connection between health and wealth is also important in understanding how to influence health outcomes. The poorest Canadians are almost three times as likely to have multiple chronic health conditions, including diabetes, as the highest-income Canadians, and the ratio steps down steadily as family income goes up."--Page 12
Download or read book Emerging Approaches to Chronic Disease Management in Primary Health Care written by John Dorland and published by Queen's School of Policy Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing chronic disease in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Where to from Here written by S. J. Duckett and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of universal healthcare in Canada and possible areas for improvement.
Download or read book Chronic Illness in Canada written by Joseph Osuji and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from our best-selling text, Chronic Illness: Impact and Intervention, Eighth Edition by Pamala D. Larsen and Ilene Morof Lubkin, this text includes recent definitions and models of care aimed towards chronic disease management (CDM) currently used in Canada. Canadian and global perspectives on chronic illness management are addressed throughout the text, and chapters on the role of primary health care in chronic care, family nursing, global health, and chronic illness are included to address the needs of nursing curriculum standards in Canada. Key Features *Chapter on complementary therapies within a Canadian health context *Every chapter is updated to include Canadian content and an emphasis on global healthcare *Contains theoretical and practical perspectives to address the continuing emergence of chronic illness in Canada and the world
Download or read book A Report on Mental Illnesses in Canada written by Canada. Health Canada and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is designed to raise the profile of mental illness in Canada among government & non-governmental organizations and the industry, education, workplace, & academic sectors. It describes major mental illnesses and outlines their incidence & prevalence, causation, impact, stigma, and prevention & treatment. Data presented are based on currently available provincial studies & data on mortality and hospitalizations. Five mental illnesses have been selected for inclusion in the report by virtue of their high prevalence rates or because of the magnitude of their health, social, & economic impact: mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and eating disorders. While not in itself a mental illness, suicidal behaviour is also included since it is highly correlated with mental illness and raises many similar issues. The appendix includes information on data sources and a call for action on building consensus for a national action plan on mental illness & mental health.
Download or read book Economic Burden of Illness in Canada 1998 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weight Control and Physical Activity written by Harri Vainio and published by IARC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoiding overweight and obesity is the best-established diet-related risk factor for cancer. The proportion of people who are overweight/obese is increasing, and the amount of physical activity is decreasing in most populations, including urban populations in many developing countries. The increasing prevalence of overweight/obesity is presumably due to the increasing availability of highly palatable, high-energy foods, and an increasing sedentary lifestyle due to mechanisation of both workplace and leisure activities. Overweight/obesity and reduced physical activity increases the risk of cancers in various organs. Maintaining a healthy body weight and regular physical activity is the second most important way to prevent cancer, after tobacco control. The suggestions of possible public health actions to tackle these risk factors include the promotion of balanced diets, which are not excessive in energy, and broad education and planning to enable and encourage physical activity during work and leisure. Recommendations and a full discussion of these topics are included in the sixth volume in this series of Handbooks.
Download or read book The Economic And Health Burden Of Chronic Pain In Ontario written by Mary-Ellen Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain is a common problem, affecting 1 in 5 Canadians. Despite this, the burden of chronic pain has not been fully investigated in Canada. This research sought to characterize the burden of chronic pain in Ontario, Canada in three studies. Individuals with and without chronic pain who were identified through the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) were matched using propensity score methods on demographic and comorbidity variables using linked healthcare administrative data. The first study estimated the annual incremental cost to manage chronic pain at $1,742 per person, 51% more than the control group. This translated into $2.8 billion (reference year 2014), or 5% of the Ontario publicly funded health budget. The second study estimated health utilities from the CCHS as a measure of health-related quality of life in people with chronic pain. Utilities are anchored by 0 (dead) and 1 (perfect health), with a difference of 0.03 being clinically meaningful. The mean utility for people with chronic pain was estimated at 0.59 compared to 0.90 for those without. These utilities were lower than those seen with most other chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The third study described mortality by following people until December 2013. There were numerically more deaths in the chronic pain group (2,063 versus 1,722) and a higher death rate for chronic pain as measured by the Kaplan Meier product limit estimator (p.
Download or read book A Model of Health written by Timothy Ainge and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 90% of older Canadians have at least one chronic disease; 65% have two or more. The aims of my thesis were to apply business analytics techniques to predict the presence of an exemplar chronic disease, heart disease, among older Canadians, and to calculate the corresponding expected healthcare costs. I used neural networks to develop logistic regression models of heart disease using demographic, lifestyle, and health information for 15,599 older adults from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The Economic Burden of Illness in Canada provided healthcare cost data. The best model identified 65.8% of heart disease cases from 40% of participants with the highest predicted probabilities of heart disease, accounting for $2.7 million more expected annual healthcare costs than a randomly sampled 40%. Among all older Canadians, this difference would be $1.1 billion. These methods could assist healthcare decision makers to optimize the delivery of chronic disease prevention interventions.
