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Thanks Jim! There was a huge amount of effort put into this... Nic 57/16 On 3 February 2010 10:33, Jim <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > To all who wrote to me about the paper "Living with Parkinson's Disease - > Challenges and Positive Steps for the Future" - Thank you for your kind > words. > The paper was published on 18 June 2007, and is only just now coming to the > attention of the academic world - time moves slowly there! > The paper had some 17 contributors in all, from several disciplines. It > was > published by Access Economics, an organisation used in Australia as a > "think > tank" by both sides of politics. > It is some 143 pages in all, and covers such topics as Prevalence and > Mortality of PD, Estimating the Economic Costs of PD - which includes > Health > System Costs, Productivity Costs and Informal Care Costs. Here is a direct > quote from the report.... > The total financial cost of PD per annum was around $527.8 million in 2005. > "These are the real economic costs. In addition there were around $30.4 > million of "transfer payments" - loss of tax revenue and welfare payments. > These payments change the distribution of who bears the costs, and are also > associated with smaller real efficiency losses from reallocation of > resources, called "deadweight losses". The main cost components of PD were > health system costs ($343.9 million), followed by deadweight losses ($82.8 > million), productivity and carer costs ($60.6 million) and other financial > costs ($40.5 million) such as aids and modifications to maintain > independence, childcare and housekeeping costs and transport, amongst other > things. However the financial costs of PD are incurred over many years. > While the median years living with PD is 12.2 years many live with the > condition for well over 20 years. > The lifetime financial cost of a PWP living with PD for 12 years (around > $100,000) is on par with the average lifetime financial cost of cancer > ($114,500). While lower than many childhood cancers, it is significantly > higher than prostate and breast cancer (both around $64,000) (Access > Economics, 2007). > In addition to financial costs, the burden of disease - the suffering and > premature death experienced by people with PD - is estimated to cost an > additional 39,100 DALYs (years of healthy life lost), with 76% due to > disability and the remaining 23% due to premature death. The net value of > the burden of disease was $6.3 billion in 2005." > ............. > You can multiply these figures by a factor of 15, to allow for the > difference in population numbers between the USA and Australia! > The paper can be downloaded from:- > > http://www.parkinsonsnsw.org.au/assets/attachments/misc/AccessEconomics_repo > rt1.pdf<http://www.parkinsonsnsw.org.au/assets/attachments/misc/AccessEconomics_repo%0Art1.pdf> > > Dr. James Slattery, PhD Soc Sc > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto: > [log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn