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ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2019

Economic Impact of Diabetes in South Asia: the Magnitude of the Problem.

Kavita Singh, K M Venkat Narayan, Karen Eggleston

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Review in Current diabetes reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Kavita SinghPublic Health Foundation of India, Plot number 47, Sector 44, Gurugram, Haryana, 122002, India. kavita@ccdcindia.org.
K M Venkat NarayanRollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Karen EgglestonStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo critically assess and identify gaps in the current literature on the economic impact of diabetes in South Asia. RECENT

findingsThe total annual (direct medical and non-medical and indirect) costs for diabetes care in South Asia range from $483-$2637 per patient, and on an average 5.8% of patients with diabetes suffer catastrophic spending i.e. when households reduce basic expenditure by 40% to cope with healthcare costs. The mean direct costs per patient are positively associated with a country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, although there is wide heterogeneity across South Asian countries. With an estimated 84 million people suffering from diabetes in South Asia, diabetes imposes a substantial economic burden on individuals, families, and society. Since the disease burden increasingly occurs in the most productive midlife period, it adversely affects workforce productivity and macroeconomic development. Diabetes-related complications lead to markedly higher treatment costs, causing catastrophic medical spending for many households, thus underscoring the importance of preventing diabetes-related complications.

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Diabetes MellitusAsiaCost of IllnessHealth Care CostsHealth ExpendituresHumansCost-of-illness studiesDiabetes mellitusEconomic impactSouth Asia

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