Table 2.
Cost of illness of diabetes (in US$) by survey year in rural Yunnan Province, China.
| Cost components | 2009 | 2016 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit cost | Total | % of total cost of illness | Unit cost | Total | % of total cost of illness | |||||
| Male | Female | All | Male | Female | All | |||||
| Direct medical costs | 1168.1 | 995.3 | 998.0 | 77,193,729.0 | 87.8 | 1326.8 | 1237.5 | 1273.8∗∗ | 121,436,449.2 | 90.9 |
| Outpatient visits | 62.3 | 38.5 | 48.0 | 3,709,008.0 | 4.3 | 65.2 | 34.5 | 45.5 | 4,337,697.0 | 3.2 |
| Hospitalizations | 866.6 | 713.4 | 709.5 | 54,823,774.5 | 62.3 | 1006.8 | 1029.0 | 1016.2∗∗ | 96,878,410.8 | 72.5 |
| Medications | 239.2 | 253.4 | 251.5 | 18,660,946.5 | 21.2 | 254.8 | 174.0 | 212.1∗ | 20,220,341.4 | 15.1 |
| Direct nonmedical costs | 111.6 | 59.0 | 73.0 | 5,640,783.0 | 6.3 | 71.1 | 34.5 | 65.5 | 6,244,377.0 | 4.7 |
| Direct costs | 1279.7∗ | 1054.3 | 1072.0 | 82,834,512.0 | 96.3 | 1397.9∗ | 1272.0 | 1339.3 | 127,680,826.2 | 95.6 |
| Indirect costs | 61.2∗ | 32.1 | 55.1 | 5,168,111.0 | 5.9 | 64.8∗ | 51.3 | 62.0 | 5,910,708.0 | 4.4 |
| Total cost of illness | 1335.3 | 1083.5 | 1113.0 | 88,002,623.0 | 100.0 | 1462.7∗ | 1323.3 | 1401.3 | 133,591,534.2 | 100.0 |
∗ P < 0.05, ∗∗P < 0.01.