The economic burden to the public health system of treating non-viral injecting-related injury and disease in Australia (a cost of illness analysis) Sweeney, Rohan, Conroy, Andrew B., Dwyer, Robyn and Aitken, Campbell K. 2009, The economic burden to the public health system of treating non-viral injecting-related injury and disease in Australia (a cost of illness analysis), Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 352-357, doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00407.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The economic burden to the public health system of treating non-viral injecting-related injury and disease in Australia (a cost of illness analysis) Author(s) Sweeney, Rohan orcid.org/0000-0002-3243-9523 Conroy, Andrew B. Dwyer, Robyn Aitken, Campbell K. Journal name Australian and New Zealand journal of public health Volume number 33 Issue number 4 Start page 352 End page 357 Total pages 6 Publisher Wiley Place of publication Milton, Qld. Publication date 2009-08 ISSN 1326-0200 1753-6405 Keyword(s) Adolescent Adult Aged Australia Confidence Intervals Cost of Illness Cross-Sectional Studies Female Health Care Costs Health Services Humans Male Middle Aged Public Health Substance Abuse, Intravenous Wounds and Injuries Young Adult Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Public, Environmental & Occupational Health economic burden injecting drug use injecting-related injury and disease Summary OBJECTIVE: We estimated the cost to the public health system of treating Injecting-Related Injuries and Diseases (IRIDs) in the three most populous states in Australia in the 12 months over 2005/06. METHODS: We conducted a cost of illness analysis from the perspective of the public health system. Costs of treating IRIDs in the community were estimated from health service utilisation surveys of injecting drug users and physicians (yielding data on Government subsidised physician visits, medicines prescribed and emergency department presentations). Data on admitted hospitalisations in public hospitals due to IRIDs were extracted from State Government databases. Appropriate costs were attached to all Government-borne services and prescriptions to estimate the total cost to the public health system of treating IRIDs in 2005/06 in Queensland, NSW and Victoria. RESULTS: Our estimate of the cost to the public health system of treating IRIDs in Queensland, NSW and Victoria in 2005/06 was $20 million. CONCLUSION: IRIDs are an under-recognised harm resulting from injecting drug use, but the economic burden of IRIDs in Australia are non-negligible. Research is needed to identify cost effective programs to reduce the clinical and economic burden caused by IRIDs, particularly to reduce hospitalisations due to IRIDs. IMPLICATIONS: General practitioners, clinicians and other health workers need to be alert to IRIDs in their injecting drug user clients to prevent progression to more serious disease and consequent elevation of the associated economic costs. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00407.x Field of Research 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified 1117 Public Health And Health Services 1402 Applied Economics 1605 Policy And Administration Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2009, The Authors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30091771 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health Population Health Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 07 Mar 2017, 12:11:39 EST Wed, 08 Mar 2017, 04:01:24 EST Thu, 09 Mar 2017, 05:10:03 EST Fri, 24 Mar 2017, 09:24:50 EST Fri, 24 Mar 2017, 09:27:56 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 7 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 78 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 07 Mar 2017, 12:11:39 EST

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