Economic cost of foodborne illnesses in the United States / Brenda Montgomery, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montgomery, Brenda, editor.

Series:

Economic issues, problems and perspectives series.

Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Cost of--Estimates--United States.

Medical care.

Foodborne diseases--Costs--Estimates--United States.

Foodborne diseases.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Summary:

Each year, one in six people in the United States is sickened by a foodborne illness. Government, industry, and others expend considerable resources in trying to prevent these foodborne illnesses. To best marshall these resources, food industry managers and policymakers need to know both the value of these efforts to society and how to target use of these resources. Estimates of the economic burden of illness provide a conservative measure of how much people are willing to pay to prevent these illnesses. This book provides an overview of recent estimates of the economic burden imposed annually by 15 leading foodborne pathogens in the United States. It examines cost-of-illness estimates with a focus on analyzing the factors that drive differences between them.

Contents:

ECONOMIC COST OF FOODBORNE ILLNESSES IN THE UNITED STATES ; ECONOMIC COST OF FOODBORNE ILLNESSES IN THE UNITED STATES ; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 ECONOMIC BURDEN OF MAJOR FOODBORNE ILLNESSES ACQUIRED IN THE UNITED STATES* ; ABSTRACT ; WHAT IS THE ISSUE? ; WHAT DID THE STUDY FIND? ; HOW WAS THE STUDY CONDUCTED? ; INTRODUCTION ; AN OVERVIEW OF THE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF MAJOR FOODBORNE ILLNESSES IN THE UNITED STATES ; Foodborne Illness Imposes a Significant Health Burden on the U.S. Population

Economic Burden Is a Measure of the Tradeoffs That People Are Willing to Make to Reduce Illness Relative Economic Burden Helps Inform How Best to Prevent Foodborne Illnesses; Cost-of-Illness Estimates Are a Conservative Approximation of the Economic Burden of Illness ; How We Developed Our Economic Burden-of-Illness Estimates ; Estimating Physical Outcomes ; Estimating the Cost of Acute, Non-Fatal Outcomes ; Medical Treatment Costs of Non-Hospitalized Cases ; Hospitalization Costs ; Productivity Loss; Estimating the Cost of Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities

Estimating Willingness to Pay to Reduce Risk of Deaths Comparing Economic Burden across Pathogens ; Examination of Uncertainty Helps Keep Estimates in Perspective ; Future Updates ; ECONOMIC BURDEN ESTIMATES BY PATHOGEN ; Introduction ; Campylobacter spp. (All Species) ; Clostridium Perfringens ; Cryptosporidium spp. (All Species) ; Cyclospora Cayetanensis ; Listeria Monocytogenes ; Norovirus ; Salmonella (Non-Typhoidal Species) ; Shigella spp. (All Species) ; STEC O157 ; STEC non-O157 ; Toxoplasma Gondii ; Vibrio Parahaemolyticus ; Vibrio Vulnificus

Vibrio Non-Cholera Species Other Than V. Parahaemolyticus and V. VulnificusYersinia Enterocolitica ; REFERENCES ; End Notes ; Chapter 2 MAKING SENSE OF RECENT COST-OF-FOODBORNE-ILLNESS ESTIMATES* ; ABSTRACT ; WHAT IS THE ISSUE? ; WHAT DID THE STUDY FIND? ; HOW WAS THE STUDY CONDUCTED? ; INTRODUCTION ; HEALTH-VALUATION METHODS AND THEIR USE ; Monetary Measures ; Nonmonetary Measures ; Monetized Quality-Adjusted Life Years ; Federal Agency Valuation Practice ; NEW DISEASE-INCIDENCE ESTIMATES ; NEW COST-OF-FOODBORNE-ILLNESS ESTIMATES

EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NEW COST-OF-FOODBORNE-ILLNESS ESTIMATES Diseases Considered ; Methods Used to Value Health Impacts ; A Note on Chronic Sequelae ; INTERPRETING RESULTS IN LIGHT OF UNCERTAINTY ; IMPACT ON PATHOGEN RANKINGS; RESEARCH NEEDS ; CONCLUSION; GLOSSARY ; APPENDIX ; REFERENCES ; End Notes ; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63483-666-9