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Smoking-attributable mortality, years of potential life lost, and direct health care costs for Puerto Rico, 1983

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Date
1991
Author
Dietz, Vance J
Novotny, Thomas E
Rigau-Pérez, José G
Shultz, James M
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The authors report the impact of smoking upon health in Puerto Rico for the year 1983. Using a microcomputer spread-sheet program that calculates smoking-attributable disease impact, they estimated that 2,468 deaths were attributable to smoking. This represented 11.5 percent of all deaths on the island in 1983 and resulted in approximately 19,445 years of potential life lost (YPLL). It appears that cigarette smoking caused US$55.9 million in direct health care expenditures for Puerto Rico in 1983, an amount equal to 10 percent of the island's yearly expenditures on health. Calculations such as these demonstrate the enormous disease impact of smoking and may assist policy-makers in planning prevention and intervention activities, both in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in Latin America
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Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);25(1),1991
Subject
Tobacco Use Disorder; Direct Service Costs; Health Expenditures; Puerto Rico
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https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/27137
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