Cost of Hypertension Disease in Kediri Regency

Atika Binti Utari, Thinni Nurul Rochmah

2017

Abstract

The incidence of hypertension is the highest non-communicable diseases in Kediri District. The prevalence of hypertension in Kediri District is 27.9 %. Their increasing prevalence is threatening to cause significant damage both to individuals and society. From the individual perspective, it is therefore necessary to consider the economic impacts associated with hypertension diseases, and identify interventions that can reduce the burden of these diseases. This cost of illness study aims to measure cost of hypertension disease in Kediri District from individual perspective. This research is a quantitative research with cross sectional method. Primary data collection is done by interviewing 100 hypertension sufferers in Kediri District. The results estimated the direct costs is 6.220.470 rupiahs per capita and the indirect costs is 6.164.081 rupiah per capita. Cost of illness caused by hypertension is about 12.384.551 rupiahs per capita. It can be concluded that the cost of hypertension disease is very high. So it can be recommended to increasing promotive and preventive efforts to reduce the incidence of hypertension disease.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Utari A. and Rochmah T. (2017). Cost of Hypertension Disease in Kediri Regency.In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA, ISBN 978-989-758-335-3, pages 272-276. DOI: 10.5220/0007028702720276

in Bibtex Style

@conference{inahea17,
author={Atika Binti Utari and Thinni Nurul Rochmah},
title={Cost of Hypertension Disease in Kediri Regency},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,},
year={2017},
pages={272-276},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007028702720276},
isbn={978-989-758-335-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,
TI - Cost of Hypertension Disease in Kediri Regency
SN - 978-989-758-335-3
AU - Utari A.
AU - Rochmah T.
PY - 2017
SP - 272
EP - 276
DO - 10.5220/0007028702720276