Diabetes represents 4% of Spanish health spending

Diabetes treatments are 4% of Spanish health expenditure

The cost of the disease amounts to 1,791 million annually.In Catalonia, patient spending ranges around 1,600 euros.

The annual diabetes cost in Spain is about 1,791 million euros, which is almost 4% of Spanish public health expenditure.The data belongs to the di@betes studio, presented at the Management-Cat forum of Diabetes, a disease that affects around 5 million Spaniards, of which 3 are diagnosed.
According to the Association of Diabetics of Catalonia, in this community 400,000 people present the disease.

It is estimated that patient expense can reach 1,600 euros.According to all experts, the only way to reduce these costs goes through a greater investment in prevention, to prevent patients from having to medicate or prevent diabetes through a healthy diet.

Given the cost of a disease such as diabetes, the participants in the forum agreed on the need to adapt to the current economic situation through the review of management models, to try to make more with the available resources.
In this sense, Gloria Molins, Baix Llobregat Center management coordinator, affirms: “Given the prevalence of diabetes and the increase in life expectancy in our country, if we want future generations to enjoy the same quality of care, we haveWhat to make an effort among all health professionals to guarantee the best results for our patients.

Diabetes management, and in any chronic disease, requires having a proactive system that makes the necessary changes in a consensual manner among all the actors involved. ”

This has become a conversation of kissing:

- Diabetes affects many people in Spain
- Yes, it's terrible, something will have to do
- Not to mention the health expenses it causes ...
- If this continues, I don't know how we can pay it shortly
- We would have to change the attention model, right?
- Yes, we will have to do something
- Well, we agree, we will do something
- Of course, we cannot continue like this
- Since the early 90s the dead by diabetes bend traffic accidents, amputations leaders, blindness, dialisis, stroke, infarctions ...
- I do remember when we talked for a long time ago
- Well we will have to do something
- It's unquestionable

And they left the meeting 1 hour later, each part by their side and in a nearby cafeteria ended the morning drinking coffee.

This could be perfectly the transcription of any meeting at any Spanish health government center from the late 90s to the present ... the participants of the meeting have changed ... Diabetes has remained the same, and in some cases worse, treated.

Yes, but less bad that we have the Social Security, (although after all he leaves our pockets) but it would be of us ... my mother ... each insulin box about 50 euros, each box of strips others50, needles, etc ...
I think a lot about other countries that do not have social security and have to pay everything ...