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JSM 2002 Abstract #302006
Activity Number: 322
Type: Luncheons
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics*
Abstract - #302006
Title: Burden of Illness: Impact on Health Policy
Author(s): Dorothy Rice*+
Affiliation(s): University of California, San Francisco
Address: 3333 California Street, Room 340, San Francisco, California, 94143-0646, USA
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Various measures of disease burden will be discussed, with emphasis on cost-of-illness studies, including the history of such studies and the conceptual and methodological issues in estimating costs. The use of burden of illness studies in setting priorities at NIH and other health policy uses will be presented.

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