The social and economic costs of stroke in New Zealand.

Autor/Urheber	Sarah Hogan; Prince Siddharth
Titel	The social and economic costs of stroke in New Zealand.
Quelle	New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (2018) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Aged Health; Civil Society Development; Infrastructure Development; Infrastructure Development Projects; Technology Development; Underdevelopment; Health for All; Health and Hygiene and the Poor; Quality of Health Care; Public Health; Health Systems; Nutrition and Health Care; Education; Health and Social Protection; Access to Health Care; Medication; Access to Medicine; Project finance; Development programs; Development strategy; Government programs; Infrastructure projects; Industrial development; Social change; Sanitation; Diseases; Water Quality; Health Hazards; Health Care Services; Health Standards; Health Service Management; Health Costs; Electronics; Computers; Child Development; Prenatal Care; Nutrition Programs; Child Nutrition; Medical Statistics; Drug Policy; Preventive Medicine; Medical Economics; Infrastructure; Central planning; Developing countries; Partnership; Joint venture; Strategic alliances; Sanitary engineering; Sanitation systems; Sanitation services; Sanitary affairs; Delivery of health care; Prevention of disease; Health status indicators; Digital; State and nutrition; Nutrition and state; Food policy; Nutrition policy; Obesity; Hospices; Medical and health care industry; Health products; Medicine
Abstract	The burden of stroke is an important concept to understand because it had a direct bearing on the level of effort warranted to address the problem. Research, funding for which is often motivated by a sense of "the size of the prize", may identify opportunities and interventions to reduce the burden of stroke. Evidence suggests that optimal management of stroke can significantly improve both short-term and long-term outcomes. Strokes are largely preventable, and some progress has been made in reducing key risk factors (such as smoking). Some reduction in the impact of stroke has been achieved in New Zealand in recent years (see section 2.3.1) due mainly to a reduction in mortality from stroke and only in small part to a reduction in the incidence of stroke. With more and more people surviving strokes however, the prevalence of stroke-related disability is expected to increase (Tobias et al. 2007). In turn, this will increase the demand for stroke rehabilitation services as well as the potential total savings associated with optimising stroke rehabilitation as well as secondary stroke prevention. This trend is likely to be reinforced by population ageing.
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