The sick and their families pay the highest price in terms of suffering, but mood disorders have an impact on the whole system. It is talked about in the Corriere Salute on newsstands for free with the Corriere on Thursday 3 February
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It is not always thought that depressive disorders, in addition to interfering with the quality of life of individuals who suffer from them and their families, represent a problem for the whole of society, which is also reflected in the cost side.
“In recent years, following analyzes carried out also by my research center, it has emerged that mental disorders represent one of the largest items of expenditure as regards both the National Health System (NHS) and that category of public expenditure that goes under the name of social expenditure, the expenditure for the social security system, in addition of course to the direct costs borne by citizens (out of pocket) “he says Francesco Saverio Mennini, Professor of Health Economics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome and President of SiHTA, the Italian Society of Health Technology Assessment. «The research carried out indicates that the costs incurred by the national health service, as regards the depressive disorder, amount to one billion 250 million euros every year, almost 11 per cent of public health expenditure which in 2019 was around 115 billion euros. The most important item of expenditure for the health service is due to specialist outpatient visits ».
But these are only the direct healthcare costs. Next are the “Indirect costs”, term used to indicate those costs related to loss of productivity, as a result of the tax loss and costs borne by the social security system. “The indirect costs are the masters, as they represent 70 percent of the total costs of this disorder,” says Mennini. «The ordinary disability allowance and the disability pension are now awarded to about eleven thousand people suffering from major depression. And they are constantly increasing: from 2009 to 2015 there was an increase of almost 21 percent ».
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