Economic Burden of Legionnaires’ Disease, United States, 2014
Madeleine M. Baker-Goering, Kakoli Roy, Chris Edens, Sarah A. Collier
Abstract
Through the use of published estimates of medical costs and new calculations of productivity losses, we estimate the lifetime economic burden of 2014 Legionnaires' disease cases in the United States at ≈$835 million. This total includes $21 million in productivity losses caused by absenteeism and $412 million in productivity losses caused by premature deaths.
Topics & Concepts
Legionnaires' diseaseProductivityAbsenteeismDisease burdenEnvironmental healthMedicineDiseaseBurden of diseaseEconomicsEconomic growthBiologyLegionella pneumophilaPopulationInternal medicineManagementBacteriaGeneticsLegionella and Acanthamoeba research