Do you know the Economic Impact of Diabetes? #7

Economic impact of diabetes

• In high-income countries, about 7% of the healthcare expenditure for diabetes goes to treating elevated blood sugar, 21% is spent on medicines to treat other symptoms, 18% is spent on ambulatory care like routine visits to GPs and 55% is consumed by hospitalisations for complications6.

In wealthy countries like the United States, insured persons with diabetes pay 10–15% of their medical costs themselves, while 20% of people with diabetes have no government or private health insurance coverage.

Sources:
2. WHO (from IDF Diabetes Atlas, 2003)

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