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Economists who want to study the economic impact of a certain disease on society are often confronted with the problem of the lack of reliable morbidity data. Although mortality data are often available (cf. European Community Atlas of Avoidable Death) there is still a lot of discussion on their quality and their comparability between countries or parts of countries (Holland, 1988). Morbidity data for the general population are generally lacking while the use of morbidity data from hospitals is difficult since the corresponding population is unknown, the so-called denominator problem.
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Thiers, G., Denayer, M., Stroobant, A. (1990). Use of Sentinel Systems in the Evaluation of the Impact of AIDS and HIV Infection. In: Schwefel, D., Leidl, R., Rovira, J., Drummond, M.F. (eds) Economic Aspects of AIDS and HIV Infection. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84089-0_9
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