The economic burden of brucellosis in Western Iran
Meysam Behzadifar, Banafsheh Darvishi Teli, Samad Azari, Ahad Bakhtiari, Mariano Martini, Masoud Behzadifar · 2025
Read The economic burden of brucellosis in Western Iran by Meysam Behzadifar, Banafsheh Darvishi Teli, Samad Azari, Ahad Bakhtiari, Mariano Martini, Masoud Behzadifar (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12661891.txt.
Description
Brucellosis, a disease caught from livestock, drains health systems and household budgets in farming regions. Meysam Behzadifar and co-authors measure that burden in Lorestan province, western Iran. They survey 427 patients and add up direct medical costs, travel and lodging costs, and lost productivity, using a bottom-up costing method.
The average total cost per patient came to 1,060 US dollars. Hospital care was the biggest slice, and direct medical costs made up about three quarters of the total. For two thirds of households, the spending counted as catastrophic, a level that threatens basic living standards. The authors offer the numbers to guide policy and fairer allocation of resources against the disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Meysam Behzadifar, Banafsheh Darvishi Teli, Samad Azari, Ahad Bakhtiari, Mariano Martini, Masoud Behzadifar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |