Health Economics
How can the social and economic burden of osteoporosis be properly estimated for each country? Given tight health care budgets, how do policy makers decide who should be treated for osteoporosis? This section of the IOF website, currently a work in progress, will offer information about various IOF health economics projects and models, including cost-effectiveness and cost-utility studies.
This section currently includes:
Cost-effectiveness Model
Download a tool, based on a Swedish model, used for the evaluation of health care technologies affecting the risk of fracture.
FRAX- The WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool
Information about this important new tool and link to the FRAXTM website.
International Costs and Utilities Related to Osteoporotic Fractures Study (ICUROS)
Information about an important study to estimate the cost and QoL following hip fracture, vertebral fracture and wrist fracture in various countries.
Quality of Life Questionnaire "Qualeffo-41"
The well-known IOF Quality of Life Questionnaire (also referred to under its original
name “Qualeffo 41”) is available here in almost 20 languages.
