Deborah Schofield, Rupendra Shrestha, Owen Tan, Katherine Lim, Radhika Rajkumar, Sarah West, Jackie Boyle, Lucinda Murray, Melanie Leffler, Louise Christie, Morgan Rice, Natalie Hart, Jinjing Li, Robert Tanton, Tony Roscioli, Mike Field
Most of the studies on the cost of intellectual disability are limited to a healthcare perspective or cohorts composed of individuals where the etiology of the condition is a mixture of genetic and non-genetic factors. When used in policy development, these can impact the decisions made on the optimal allocation of resources. In our study, we have developed a static microsimulation model to estimate the healthcare, societal, and lifetime cost of individuals with familial intellectual disability, an inheritable form of the condition, to families and government...
March 4, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health