Health Economic Study October 2020
DiCE commissioned the study to the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE). IHE analysed the complete costs of each digestive cancer by country. Their evaluation included:
- the direct health costs, such as hospitalisation, surgery, imaging, chemotherapy
- the costs of informal care
- the indirect health costs caused by premature mortality and morbidity.
The Institute carried out this study across 31 countries: the EU-27 member states, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK for the year 2018.
For a high-level summary please go to our White Paper ‘The Economic Burden of Digestive Cancers in Europe’ that includes our recommendations on how to decrease this enormous social and economic burden and save hundreds of thousands of lives, or you can go to the full study report.