Rationale and opportunities in estimating the economic burden of seasonal influenza across countries using a standardized WHO tool and manual

This article aims to describe the rationale of this manual development and opportunities that lie in collecting data to help policymakers estimate the economic burden of seasonal influenza. It describes a manual developed by WHO to help such estimation and also links to relevant literature and tools to ensure robustness of applied methods to assess the economic burden associated with seasonal influenza, including direct medical costs, direct non‐medical costs and indirect costs.

Source: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses - November 16, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Surachai Kotirum, Anthony T. Newall, Philipp Lambach, Raymond C. W. Hutubessy Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research