{"id":15138,"date":"2015-05-05T10:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=15138"},"modified":"2015-05-05T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:31:27","slug":"how-much-does-diabetes-cost-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/how-much-does-diabetes-cost-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Does Diabetes Cost to Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"15The cost of diabetes in 2013 nationwide was more than 7.7 billion pesos<\/strong>, from which 55 percent represent indirect costs such as premature death and temporary or permanent disability<\/strong>, according to a study that will be included in the book “Challenges of chronic diseases in Mexico.”<\/p>\n

The book will be published by the University of Montreal, and the main author is Armando Arredondo, professor at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), with the support of partners in Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n

The aim of the study was to identify how much it costs to treat diabetes in Mexico and its collateral impact on society as a result of lost working days<\/strong>. To do this, Arredondo, as guest professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal, designed a series of mathematical and probabilistic models with help provided by Canadian colleagues to estimate indirect costs of the disease at the national level. According to a previous study by the same author, published in the medical journal BMC Medicine and PLOS ONE, indirect costs in 2013 amount more than 4.3 billion pesos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He also identified the economic burden of this disease for health systems of the states of Sinaloa, Jalisco, Yucatan, Morelos and Hidalgo, and the prevalence and the strategy that each use to control this chronic disease.<\/p>\n

The mathematical model of Dr. Arredondo includes diabetes prevalence rate of five states: Morelos 10.9 percent, Jalisco 11.3, Sinaloa 12.3, Yucatan and Hidalgo 12.5. Through this values he estimated the economic impact for the period 2014 to 2018 each one of them.<\/p>\n

Preliminary results found that the economic burden for 2015<\/strong> was higher in Jalisco<\/strong>, with around 239 million pesos<\/strong>. While Yucatan has the highest prevalence of diabetes<\/strong>, its costs amounted few more than 71 million pesos<\/strong>, representing a difference of more than 168 million pesos between the two states.<\/p>\n

Although Jalisco is the state with lower epidemiological rates, it is the entity that allocated more budget. This result is very important, because it shows that diabetes prevalence not really determines the economic impact in society, but the strategy used by the health system to address the problem, Arredondo said.<\/p>\n

He also added that based on the probabilistic models of epidemiological changes and economic requirements needed to treat diabetes, it is possible to estimate that if Jalisco continues with the same strategy, the amount by 2018 will increase 70 million pesos.<\/p>\n

“When epidemiological burden is analyzed separately, one would think that a state like Yucatan –which has a biggest problem with diabetes — spends more money; however, it doesn’t. This means that the economic burden is not directly related to the epidemiological one, and that the annual expenditure on treating the disease has a close relationship with how each state health system address the issue<\/em>,” said Dr. Arredondo.<\/p>\n

After analyzing figures, it was found that the fact that an interdisciplinary team (sociologists, anthropologists, nutritionists) dedicated to addressing diabetes and hypertension, in addition to working groups formed by society, patients, families and officials of the Government of Yucatan, helping to tackle the problem, may be the difference in terms of effective expenditure.<\/p>\n

In Jalisco, costs related to complications (retinopathy, cardiovascular disease, nephropathy, neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease) absorbs 40 million. If they adapt a strategy similar to the one implemented in Yucatan, the total figure could be reduced by 70 percent, explained Arredondo.<\/p>\n

“It is necessary to change the way hypertension and diabetes is addressed in Mexico, moving towards a model of greater prevention, with significant changes. Because the root of the problems is that the national health system was designed to treat infectious diseases, not chronic, but nobody wants to admit that it is not effective<\/em>, “said Dr. Arredondo.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> Agencia ID<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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