Cost for diabetes mellitus care in Romania and the world in the interval 1998-2007

摘要

This research highlights the significance of preventing, founding out and treating diabetes mellitus from early stages of on set. The late finding of diabetes mellitus leads to both medical and economic losses. The treatment of the complications of the diabetic disease raises the costs of the care and the losses due to patient missing from work cannot be neglected. The expenses with diabetes mellitus have constantly increased everywhere in the world. The highest costs for a diabetic patient raised to 13,243 USD/patient/year, in 2002, in the USA - the highest ever recorded costs of this disease. A study carried out in Europe, in 1998, showed that hospitalisation costs represent 54% of the total costs of diabetes mellitus treatment, ambulatory care costs 18%, hypoglycaemia medication - 7%, while the cost for associated pathologies is about 21%. In Romania, the treatment of diabetes mellitus is free of charge. The funds allotted by the Ministry of Health for the Diabetes Programme in the time interval 2000-2008 increased eight times, so that the estimates for 2010 range 360,000 thousand RON.