Cost-of-Illness and Cost-Effectiveness in Disease Management
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 2679
Special Issue Editor
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A better understanding of the broad economic impact of diseases and their management is essential to properly define the strategies guiding rationale and sustainable clinical practice and prioritize interventions that relieve the economic burden of disease for patients, families and society.
In an era of continuous development of innovative treatments and technologies, there is an urgent need to produce evidence about the costs of illness and the cost effectiveness of alternative approaches to manage disease in order to evaluate the relative weight of different costs’ components not only from a third-payer perspective, but also from the perspective of society to reveal the burden of direct non-healthcare costs, and indirect and intangible costs.
This Special Issue welcomes applied studies to enhance knowledge about the cost-of-illness and cost-effectiveness in disease management using alternative approaches, as well studies focusing on the economic impact of health interventions or shocks (i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic) on disease-related costs over different patient groups and within different contexts. The submission of methodological papers proposing and discussing appropriate approaches to enable and reveal the proper evaluation and analysis of costs of illness and cost effectiveness is also encouraged.
Dr. Valentina Lorenzoni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cost of illness
- cost effectiveness
- economic impact
- disease burden
- costs
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