HLTB15H3 Chapter Notes -Colorectal Cancer, Smoking Cessation, Universal Precautions
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Week 3 readings: investing in prevention the economic perspective by phac: overview. Understanding the economic benefits and costs of preventive health measures enables policymakers and program managers to make better-informed decisions about where and how best to invest to order to improve the health of the population. Economic perspective should be just one of the inputs but it allows us to make a more rigours, systematic and transparent decision-making process in a world of limited resources: the economic rationale for investing in prevention. 2. 1 the economic burden of illness in canada. Indirect costs: value of economic output lost because of illness, injury-related work disability, or premature death. Yyexamples: quality-adjusted life year (qaly), disability adjusted life year (daly) or in monetary terms. Total economic burden in canada due to disease or injury is 188 billion dollars in direct and indirect costs alone (2000)
