The Economic Cost of Communicable Disease Surveillance in Local Public Health Agencies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We identify economic costs associated with communicable disease (CD) monitoring/surveillance in Colorado local public health agencies and identify possible economies of scale.

Data sources/study setting

Data were collected via a survey of local public health employees engaged in CD work. Survey respondents logged time spent on CD surveillance for 2-week periods in the spring of 2014 and fall of 2014. Forty-three of the 54 local public health agencies in Colorado participated.

Study design

We used a microcosting approach. We estimated a statistical cost function using cost as a function of the number of reported investigable diseases during the matched 2-week period. We also controlled for other independent variables, including case mix, characteristics of th

SUBMITTER: Atherly A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682125 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature