How much does the treatment of each major disease cost? A decomposition of Swiss National Health Accounts

Wieser, Simon; Riguzzi, Marco; Pletscher, Mark; Huber, Carola A; Telser, Harry; Schwenkglenks, Matthias

doi:10.1007/s10198-018-0963-5

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Wieser, S., Riguzzi, M., Pletscher, M., Huber, C. A., Telser, H., & Schwenkglenks, M. (2018). How much does the treatment of each major disease cost? A decomposition of Swiss National Health Accounts. European Journal of Health Economics, 19(8), 1149–1161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-0963-5

Abstract

In most countries, surprisingly little is known on how national healthcare spending is distributed across diseases. Single-disease cost-of-illness studies cover only a few of the diseases affecting a population and in some cases lead to untenably large estimates. The objective of this study was to decompose healthcare spending in 2011, according to Swiss National Health Accounts, into 21 collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive major disease categories. Diseases were classified following the Global Burden of Disease Study. We fi