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.
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.
In addition, please see:
Disease model for postmenopausal osteoporosis
The country adaptable model can be used to forecast the incidence and prevalence of fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (published in Osteoporosis International). View press release
- Estimation of the burden of postmenopausal osteoporosis in the UK from 2010 to 2021: click here
- Upcoming publications for Germany, Italy, France and Spain.
