Health burden and economic costs of smoking in Chile: The potential impact of increasing cigarettes prices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globally, tobacco consumption continues to cause a huge burden of preventable diseases. Chile has been leading the tobacco burden ranking in the Latin American region for the last ten years; it has currently a 33. 3% prevalence of current smokers.

Methods

A microsimulation economic model was developed within the framework of a multi-country project in order to estimate the burden attributable to smoking in terms of morbidity, mortality, disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and direct costs of care. We also modelled the impact of increasing cigarettes' taxes on this burden.

Results

In Chile, 16,472 deaths were attributable to smoking in 2017, which represent around 16% of all deaths. This burden corresponds to 416,445 DALYs per year. The country's health

SUBMITTER: Castillo-Riquelme M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454964 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature