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. 2015 Nov 6;15:1106. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2430-x

Table 4.

Direct, indirect and total costs (in US$) for health care service providers and users attributable to hypertension expected for the year 2016 in Mexico

Item of cost
SSAa IMSS ISSSTE Users TOTAL
Direct costs
 Consultations/diagnosis 45,733,525 87,930,959 35,154,160 182,994,757 358,813,400
 Drugs 61,522,443 102,586,116 41,013,184 213,493,698 418,615,441
 Hospitalisation 48,339,063 80,603,376 32,224,645 167,744,730 328,911,814
 Nephropathy 152,268,051 253,900,637 101,507,633 528,396,746 1,036,073,067
 Nonfatal myocardial infarction 69,212,750 115,409,380 46,139,832 240,180,130 470,942,093
 Nonfatal stroke 55,370,201 92,327,505 36,911,866 192,143,650 376,753,221
 Total direct 439,446,033 732,757,971 292,951,320 1,524,953,711 2,990,109,035
Indirect costs
 Mortality 73,130,538 121,884,230 35,752,658 253,717,405 497,485,864
 Permanent disability 360,777,319 601,295,532 240,518,212 1,251,676,210 2,454,267,274
 Temporary disability 53,629,060 89,381,768 48,753,692 186,059,662 364,823,148
 Total indirect 487,536,917 812,561,530 325,024,561 1691,453,277 3316,576,285
Total costs 926,982,959 1545,319,501 617,975,882 3216,406,987 6,306,685,320

Source: Arredondo et al. (2014) [17] Costos y consecuencias financieras del cambio en el perfil epidemiológico en México. INSP–University of Montreal-International Development Research Centre, 1999–2009. Update of probabilistic models, January 2015

Exchange rate: January 2015, 1 US$ = 14.85 Mexican $

a SSA Ministry of Health, IMSS Mexican Institute for Social Security, ISSSTE Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers, Users pocket payment