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Estimating costs for modelling return on investment from smoking cessation interventions
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Centre of Research in Economics and Health (CRES-UPF) University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), Barcelona, Spain
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Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH)—German Research Center for Environmental Health, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Neuherberg, Germany
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Munich Center of Health Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Health Economics Research Group, Institute of Environment, Health and Societies, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UK
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Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Health Economics, Eötvös Loránd University, and Syreon Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
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CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Department of Health Services Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Publication date: 2018-06-13
Corresponding author
M Trapero-Bertran
Centre of Research in Economics and Health (CRES-UPF) University Pompeu Fabra, c/Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27; 08005; Barcelona, Spain
Centre of Research in Economics and Health (CRES-UPF) University Pompeu Fabra, c/Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27; 08005; Barcelona, Spain
Tob. Prev. Cessation 2018;4(Supplement):A93
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Aim and objective: Modelling return on investment (ROI) from smoking cessation interventions requires estimates of their costs and benefits. This paper describes a standardized method developed to source both economic costs of tobacco smoking and costs of implementing cessation interventions for a Europe-wide ROI model (EQUIPTMOD).
Methods:
Focused search of administrative and published data on dult population (15+ years) in Hungary, Netherlands, Germany, Spain and England. For passive smoking related costs, child population (0-15 years) was also included. A standardized checklist was developed in order to ensure consistency in methods of data collection. Costs of treating smoking attributable diseases; productivity losses due to smoking attributable absenteeism; and costs of implementing smoking cessation interventions were measured.
Results:
Annual costs (per case) of treating smoking attributable lung cancer were between €5,074 (Hungary) and €52,106 (Germany); coronary heart disease between €1,521 (Spain) and €3,955 (Netherlands); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease between €1,280 (England) and €4,199 (Spain); stroke between €1,829 (Hungary) and €14,880 (Netherlands). Costs (per recipient) of smoking cessation medications were estimated to be: for standard duration of varenicline between €225 (England) and €465 (Hungary); for bupropion between €25 (Hungary) and €220 (Germany). Costs (per recipient) of providing behavioral support were also wide-ranging: one-to-one behavioural support between €34 (Hungary) and €474 (Netherlands); and group-based behavioural support between €12 (Hungary) and €257 (Germany). The costs (per recipient) of delivering brief physician advice were: €24 (England); €9 (Germany); €4 (Hungary); €33 (Netherlands); €27 (Spain).
Conclusions:
Costs of treating smoking-attributable diseases as well as the costs of implementing smoking cessation interventions vary substantially across the five study countries. Estimates for the costs of these diseases and interventions can contribute to return on investment estimates in support of national or regional policy decisions.
Funding:
We have received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (The EQUIPT Project; grant agreement 602270). The funders had no influence in the conduction of this study or the drafting of this manuscript.
Aim and objective: Modelling return on investment (ROI) from smoking cessation interventions requires estimates of their costs and benefits. This paper describes a standardized method developed to source both economic costs of tobacco smoking and costs of implementing cessation interventions for a Europe-wide ROI model (EQUIPTMOD).
Methods:
Focused search of administrative and published data on dult population (15+ years) in Hungary, Netherlands, Germany, Spain and England. For passive smoking related costs, child population (0-15 years) was also included. A standardized checklist was developed in order to ensure consistency in methods of data collection. Costs of treating smoking attributable diseases; productivity losses due to smoking attributable absenteeism; and costs of implementing smoking cessation interventions were measured.
Results:
Annual costs (per case) of treating smoking attributable lung cancer were between €5,074 (Hungary) and €52,106 (Germany); coronary heart disease between €1,521 (Spain) and €3,955 (Netherlands); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease between €1,280 (England) and €4,199 (Spain); stroke between €1,829 (Hungary) and €14,880 (Netherlands). Costs (per recipient) of smoking cessation medications were estimated to be: for standard duration of varenicline between €225 (England) and €465 (Hungary); for bupropion between €25 (Hungary) and €220 (Germany). Costs (per recipient) of providing behavioral support were also wide-ranging: one-to-one behavioural support between €34 (Hungary) and €474 (Netherlands); and group-based behavioural support between €12 (Hungary) and €257 (Germany). The costs (per recipient) of delivering brief physician advice were: €24 (England); €9 (Germany); €4 (Hungary); €33 (Netherlands); €27 (Spain).
Conclusions:
Costs of treating smoking-attributable diseases as well as the costs of implementing smoking cessation interventions vary substantially across the five study countries. Estimates for the costs of these diseases and interventions can contribute to return on investment estimates in support of national or regional policy decisions.
Funding:
We have received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (The EQUIPT Project; grant agreement 602270). The funders had no influence in the conduction of this study or the drafting of this manuscript.
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