Do you know the Economic Impact of Diabetes? #3

Economic impact of diabetes

• There are also indirect costs to be taken into account: lost productivity due to the inability to work, sickness, absence, disability, premature retirement or premature death. They are harder to estimate, but can be even more significant than the direct medical costs. For example, combining the cost estimates for 25 Latin American countries suggests that costs of lost production due to diabetes problems may be as much as five times the direct healthcare cost of diabetes treatment3. Families, too, suffer loss of earnings as a result of diabetes and its consequences.

Sources:
3. IDF Diabetes Atlas, 2003, second edition

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