| Summary: | 碩士 === 佛光大學 === 應用經濟學系 === 102 === This study apply CVDFACTS "Chutung and the Cynanchum komarovii area cardiovascular disease long-term track research" questionnaire data collected by Academia Sinica and data of National Health Insurance database, The objectives of this study were estimation of demand function by diabetes patient’s health index (blood pressure value, and blood glucose value, and total cholesterol value, and overweight value) , and estimation on the economic benefits of patients, society, government by improving risk factors of diabetes (hypertension, and high blood glucose, and high cholesterol, and overweight) .
Owing to disease prevention is non-market goods, there is no real market to reflect the true price. The study apply "alternative market valuation method" on the basis of a two-stage estimation method to estimate the economic benefits, the first stage estimation was treatment rate function (probit function); the second phase estimation was the total health care expenditure function (select function). The estimation of total health care expenditure function of diabetes risk factors were select function’s partial derivatives, got the inverse demand function of diabetes risk factors for consumers. Finally this study use the inverse demand function under different level of diabetes risk factors and estimated for economic benefits bring by diabetes risk factors improvement.
Empirical results show that if diabetes patients can improve their blood glucose, total cholesterol, being overweight to normal levels, the economic benefits are 1,208, 609, 175 N.T. dollars respectively. In the case of Taiwan as a whole if improving the blood sugar of diabetes patients, values for total cholesterol, overweight to normal levels, the total economic benefits are 1.208 billion, $ 609 million and 175 million NT. dollars respectively.
In the case of limited medical resources, if we can reduce the level of diabetes risk factors , .we will be much easier to lower the medical expenditure.
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