PMID: 19944035Dec 1, 2009Paper

Cost of cancer care in Portugal

Acta Médica Portuguesa
António AraújoRicardo Pereira

Abstract

Cancer is the second most important cause of death in Portugal, following cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and shows a constant progressive increase in the proportional share of total deaths. In Portugal, as in most countries, the health care budget is under constant cost-containment pressures. In this context it is necessary to verify if enough resources have been allocated to the disease in terms of health care expenditure. The main objective of this study is to estimate the cost of cancer care in Portugal and to compare it to similar data in Europe and the United States of America (USA), to the cost of CVD. The secondary objective is to evaluate the cost of pharmaceuticals used in the treatment of cancer in Portugal, both in relation to total pharmaceutical expenditure and to other therapeutic areas. Three main sources of information were used: comprehensive literature review, primary and secondary data sources, and a modified Delphi Panel, which was used to fill in gaps in the information derived from the data sources and the literatura review. The burden of cancer was measured through the Disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) and, in order to determine the costs of cancer, detailed information on the costs of medical visits a...Continue Reading

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