Abstract
Today, health-care professionals everywhere understand the necessity of placing illness, treatment alternatives, and most importantly, patients' well-being, in a political, economic, and social context. Difficulties in evaluating the socioeconomic factors related to single illnesses have been well documented, but no model exists yet for evaluating costs related to a pathology that involves two serious illnesses simultaneously (e.g., brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE). Published cost studies have addressed either brain tumor or epilepsy-but there is no health economic study (to our knowledge) regarding BTRE. This chapter offers an overview of basic health economic concepts with examples of prevalent types of economic studies; a discussion of issues that influence policy and funding decisions; a brief introduction to health technology assessment as relating to costs of pharmacological therapies; and a presentation of social/economic costs related to neurological disorders, epilepsy, and brain tumors (there are no such data for BTRE).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Epilepsy and Brain Tumors |
Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
Pages | 257-268 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780124171268, 9780124170438 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 4 2015 |
Keywords
- Brain tumor costs
- Brain tumor-related epilepsy
- Epilepsy costs
- Health economics
- Social costs
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)
- Neuroscience(all)