The cost of lost productivity due to premature cancer-related mortality: an economic measure of the cancer burden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most measures of the cancer burden take a public health perspective. Cancer also has a significant economic impact on society. To assess this economic burden, we estimated years of potential productive life lost (YPPLL) and costs of lost productivity due to premature cancer-related mortality in Ireland.

Methods

All cancers combined and the 10 sites accounting for most deaths in men and in women were considered. To compute YPPLL, deaths in 5-year age-bands between 15 and 64 years were multiplied by average working-life expectancy. Valuation of costs, using the human capital approach, involved multiplying YPPLL by age-and-gender specific gross wages, and adjusting for unemployment and workforce participation. Sensitivity analyses were conducted around retirement age

SUBMITTER: Hanly PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3986872 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature