BCN HEALTH publishes a study evaluating the productivity losses associated to colorectal cancer in Spain
The company conducted an analysis of the productivity losses associated to premature mortality from colorectal cancer in Spain between 2008 and 2017
BCN HEALTH has published the study ‘Evaluation of productivity losses due to premature mortality from colorectal cancer’, in the journal ‘Plos ONE’, an international multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal interested in publishing rigorous scientific studies that could lead to important advances for society.
BCN HEALTH conducted an analysis of the productivity losses associated to premature mortality from colorectal cancer in Spain between 2008 and 2017. This analysis was based in the human capital approach, which estimates the indirect costs that the disease represents for the individual, family, society or employer via the calculation of the income and productivity of an individual that are prevented when premature death occurs. To this end, statistics on mortality and salaries were extracted from the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). The costs of premature mortality were estimated using age- and sex-specific annual wages from death age to age of retirement.
Between 2008 and 2017, 15,103 persons died per year from colorectal cancer, representing almost 15% of all cancer-related deaths. Annually, 25,333 years of potential productive life were estimated to be lost on average, 14,992 in males and 10,341 in females. Productivity losses summed €5.2 billion over the 10 year period, €511 million only in 2017. The cancers of the colon and rectum accounted for 9.6% of cancer-related productivity losses in 2017 in Spain.
More information can be found at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244375.