Schenone H
Programa de Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Bol Chil Parasitol. 1998 Jan-Jun;53(1-2):23-6.
According to the gathered information from the 1992 Chile census and an extensive epidemiological field study of Chagas' disease in rural-periurban sections of the seven most northern regions where this malady is endemic, the following epidemiological outline arises: Total population in the country 13,348,401. Population in endemic regions 8,824,205 (urban 8,050,700, rural 773,505). Number of infected 142,000 (16.7%). Total number of cardiopathies 26,554 (18.7%). In considering the regime of fees for health attentions of the National Health Funds--including hospitalization, laboratory tests and surgical interventions--in its minimal prices plus the value of medicaments, it is possible to produce some estimates on the cost of attention and treatment, in U.S. dollars, of the chagasic patient. Average annual cost of a patient with chronic chagasic cardiopathy U.S. $439.29 to U.S. $584.25 If these values are multiplied by 26,554 give rise to a figure ranging from U.S. $11,644,906 to U.S. $15,514,474.
根据1992年智利人口普查收集的信息以及对恰加斯病在该国七个最北部地区农村-城郊地带进行的广泛流行病学实地研究（该疾病在这些地区流行），得出了以下流行病学概况：该国总人口为13348401人。流行地区人口为8824205人（城市人口8050700人，农村人口773505人）。感染人数为142000人（占16.7%）。心脏病患者总数为26554人（占18.7%）。考虑到国家卫生基金提供医疗服务的收费标准——包括住院、实验室检查和手术干预——以其最低价格加上药品价值，可以对查加斯病患者的治疗和护理成本进行一些以美元计算的估算。慢性查加斯病性心脏病患者的年均成本为439.29美元至584.25美元。如果将这些数值乘以26554，则得出的数字在11644906美元至15514474美元之间。
