Publications by authors named "L M Pena-Longobardo"
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- The study aims to measure the impact of alcohol consumption on premature deaths and productivity losses in Spain from 2002 to 2018, comparing these figures with those related to tobacco.
- Data analysis indicates a significant decrease in productivity losses related to alcohol, dropping from 1,959 million euros in 2002 to 936 million euros in 2018, which is a 52.2% reduction, while tobacco-related losses remain high at 68.6%.
- The findings highlight the success in reducing alcohol-related productivity losses, but stress that both alcohol and tobacco still represent major economic burdens, necessitating ongoing public health initiatives to address these issues.
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- - The study analyzes the economic burden and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of epidermolysis bullosa (EB) patients in Spain, highlighting the financial impact on both patients and society.
- - With an average annual cost of €31,352 per patient, the costs consist mainly of non-healthcare expenses (71.3%), healthcare costs (17.2%), and productivity losses (11.5%).
- - HRQoL scores indicate a significant impact, with severe EB patients scoring lower (0.45) than non-severe situations (0.62), underlining the importance of considering both direct and indirect costs in healthcare policies.
Background: Omission of family and caregiver health spillovers from the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions remains common practice. When reported, a high degree of methodological inconsistency in incorporating spillovers has been observed.
Aim: To promote emerging good practice, this paper from the Spillovers in Health Economic Evaluation and Research (SHEER) task force aims to provide guidance on the incorporation of family and caregiver health spillovers in cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis.
Background: Measurement of muscle mass and function, and thereafter, screening and diagnosis of sarcopenia, is a challenge and a need in hospitalized older adults. However, it is difficult in complex real-world old patients, because usually they are unable to collaborate with clinical, functional, and imaging testing. Ultrasound measurement of quadriceps rectus femoris (QRF) provides a non-invasive, real-time assessment of muscle quantity and quality, and is highly acceptable to participants with excellent inter-rater and intra-rater variability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatitis C virus (HCV) infection causes a substantial economic burden, not only in terms of healthcare costs, but also in labour productivity losses. The main objective of this study is to provide objective and comparable information about the trend in labour productivity losses caused by premature HCV-associated deaths in Spain in recent years (2009-2018). We used nationwide data from several official sources to create a simulation model based on the human capital approach and to estimate the flows in labour productivity losses due to deaths identified in the period considered.
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