Epilepsy in Sweden: health care costs and loss of productivity—a register-based approach

Kristian Bolin, Anders Lundgren, Fredrik Berggren and Kristina Källén

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2012, vol. 13, issue 6, 819-826

Abstract: The per-patient cost of epilepsy is substantial. Thus, even though the prevalence of the illness is relatively small, the aggregated cost that epilepsy incurs on society is significant. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012

Keywords: Epilepsy; Pharmaceutical utilisation; Cost of illness; Health economics; I11; I18; I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-011-0361-8

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