Forecasting models like this can help policymakers anticipate future burdens of chronic diseases and design targeted policies that fight these diseases in the most effective ways possible, both in terms of clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.
Anticipating that burden, taxpayers with money sit on it.
It is anticipated that the burden on health services and social welfare will be heavier as a result of the ageing population in Hong Kong.
It is anticipated that the burden of diabetes in Canada will continue to grow in the next decade, with the number of individuals with diabetes reaching 2.4 million and health care expenditures reaching $8.14 billion nationally by 2016 [ 20].
GPs' experiences with PSA testing (positive and negative), values, perceptions (of the GP role, the patient role, of the PSA test and overdiagnosis), considerations of evidence and guidelines, and their sense of personal burden (anticipated or experienced) all uniquely contribute to PSA testing patterns.
We would not have chosen the burdens we anticipated, and in fact we declared upfront our inability to handle such burdens.
He, too, found the monuments, which were much more expensive to buy, carve, and install than he had anticipated, to be a burden.
The service, which has attracted less than half the subscribers anticipated, has proved a burden to handset makers like the NEC Corporation and others who expected to sell more phones.
Moreover, this mortality burden is anticipated to increase to 60%% across the MENA region by 2020 [ 10].
The disease burden is anticipated to grow to 1.7 million new cases and 499,000 deaths by 2030 simply due to the expansion and aging of the global population [ 2].
