Adjusted productivity costs of stroke by human capital and friction cost methods: a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Productivity costs result from loss of paid and unpaid work and replacements due to morbidity and mortality. They are usually assessed in health economic evaluations with human capital method (HCM) or friction cost method (FCM). The methodology for estimating lost productivity is an area of considerable debate.

Objective

To compare traditional and adjusted HCM and FCM productivity cost estimates among young stroke patients.

Methods

The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 was followed until the age of 50 to identify all 339 stroke patients whose productivity costs were estimated with traditional, occupation-specific and adjusted HCM and FCM models by using detailed, national register-based data on care, disability, mortality, education, taxation and labour ma

SUBMITTER: Rissanen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8166714 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature