Economic impact of HIV/AIDS: a systematic review in five European countries

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dc.contributor.author	Trapero Bertran, Marta
dc.contributor.author	Oliva Moreno, Juan
dc.date	2019-12-09T09:56:17Z
dc.date	2019-12-09T09:56:17Z
dc.date	2014-09-16
dc.identifier	Trapero Bertran, Marta; Oliva Moreno, Juan. «Economic impact of HIV/AIDS: a systematic review in five European countries». Health Economics Review, 2014, vol. 4, art. 15. Disponible en: <https://healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13561-014-0015-5>. Fecha de acceso: 09 dic. 2019. DOI: 10.1186/s13561-014-0015-5
dc.identifier	2191-1991
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-014-0015-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/1384
dc.description	The HIV/AIDS disease represent a priority for all health authorities in all countries and it also represents serious added socioeconomic problems for societies over the world. The aim of this paper is to analize the economic impact associated to the HIV/AIDS in an European context. We conducted a systematic literature review for five different countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom) and searched five databases. Three types of analyses were undertaken: descriptive statistics; quantitative analysis to calculate mean costs; and comparison across countries. 26 papers were included in this study containing seventy-six cost estimates. Most of the studies analyzed the health care cost of treatment of HIV/AIDS. Only 50% of the cost estimates provided mean lymphocyte count describing the patients’ disease stage. Approximately thirty percent of cost estimates did not indicate the developmental stage of the illness in the patients included. There is a high degree of variability in the estimated annual cost per patient of the treatments across countries. There is also a great disparity in total healh care costs for patients with lymphocyte counts between 200CD4+/mm3 and 500 CD4/mm3, although the reason of variation is unclear. In spite of the potential economic impact in terms of productivity losses and cost of formal and informal care, few studies have set out to estimate the non-medical costs of HIV/AIDS in the countries selected. Another important result is that, despite the low HIV/AIDS prevalence, its economic burden is very relevant in terms of the total health care costs in this five countries. This study also shows that there are relatively few studies of HIV costs in European countries compared to other diseases. Finally, we conclude that the methodology used in many of the studies carried out leaves ample room for improvement and that there is a need for these studies to reflect the economic impact of HIV/AIDS beyond health care including other components of social burden.
dc.format	16
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	SpringerOpen
dc.relation	Health Economics Review
dc.relation	4;15
dc.relation	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/ECON2013-48217-C2-2-R
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Cost
dc.subject	Costes
dc.subject	VIH (Virus)
dc.subject	HIV (Viruses)
dc.subject	Europa
dc.subject	Europe
dc.subject	33
dc.subject	61
dc.title	Economic impact of HIV/AIDS: a systematic review in five European countries
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

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