The Healthcare and Societal Costs of Familial Intellectual Disability.

ABSTRACT: Most of the studies on the cost of intellectual disability are limited to a healthcare perspective or cohorts composed of individuals where the etiology of the condition is a mixture of genetic and non-genetic factors. When used in policy development, these can impact the decisions made on the optimal allocation of resources. In our study, we have developed a static microsimulation model to estimate the healthcare, societal, and lifetime cost of individuals with familial intellectual disability, an inheritable form of the condition, to families and government. The results from our modeling show that the societal costs outweighed the health costs (approximately 89.2% and 10.8%, respectively). The lifetime cost of familial intellectual disability is approximately AUD 7 million per person and

SUBMITTER: Schofield D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10970490 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature