{"title":"Smoking Attributable Inpatient Healthcare Expenditure among Adults in Alexandria, Egypt","authors":"N. El-Nimr, A. Wahdan, I. Wahdan","doi":"10.21608/jhiph.2019.38646","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background & Objective(s): The growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in developing countries has highlighted the importance of monitoring the economic cost of tobacco use. The aim of this work was to calculate the inpatient smoking-attributable health care expenditure (SAE) for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) among adults in","PeriodicalId":34256,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Institute of Public Health","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of High Institute of Public Health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jhiph.2019.38646","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background & Objective(s): The growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in developing countries has highlighted the importance of monitoring the economic cost of tobacco use. The aim of this work was to calculate the inpatient smoking-attributable health care expenditure (SAE) for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) among adults in