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Asthma costs and social impact

Overview of attention for article published in Asthma Research and Practice, January 2017
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Title
Asthma costs and social impact
Published in
Asthma Research and Practice, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40733-016-0029-3
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Authors

Carlos Nunes, Ana Margarida Pereira, Mário Morais-Almeida

Abstract

In recent decades, both asthma prevalence and incidence have been increasing worldwide, not only due to the genetic background, but mainly because of the effect of a wide number of environmental and lifestyle risk factors. In many countries noncommunicable diseases, like asthma, are not yet considered a healthcare priority. This review will analyze and discuss disparities in asthma management in several countries and regions, such as access to healthcare human resources and medications, due to limited financial capacity to develop strategies to control and prevent this chronic disease. This review tries to explore the social and economic burden of asthma impact on society. Although asthma is generally accepted as a costly illness, the total costs to society (direct, indirect and intangible asthma costs) are difficult to estimate, mainly due to different disease definitions and characterizations but also to the use of different methodologies to assess the asthma socio-economic impact in different societies. The asthma costs are very variables from country to country, however we can estimate that a mean cost per patient per year, including all asthmatics (intermittent, mild, moderate and severe asthma) in Europe is $USD 1,900, which seems lower than USA, estimated mean $USD 3,100.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 843 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 114 14%
Student > Master 110 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 87 10%
Researcher 77 9%
Other 50 6%
Other 140 17%
Unknown 266 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 157 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 60 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 58 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 54 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 33 4%
Other 191 23%
Unknown 291 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 September 2023.
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#580,202
of 25,460,914 outputs
Outputs from Asthma Research and Practice
#3
of 86 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,233
of 422,083 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Asthma Research and Practice
#2
of 2 outputs
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