Health Care Cost | Cervical Cancer Evaluation Measures

Health care costs measures for cervical cancer screening^1-4

In contrast with the worker productivity costs described above, health care costs are measures of the direct medical expenses of providing employee health care and preventive health programs.

Baseline

• Determine costs and use for health care such as outpatient visits, screening, diagnostic procedures (e.g., biopsies), one-on-one education counseling, hospitalizations, and treatment (e.g., surgery or chemotherapy) for cervical cancer related illness and disability
• Determine the health care use and costs of program participants before education and other programs are initiated and after operation of these programs

Process

• Periodic repeats of baseline measures

Outcome

• Assess changes in health care use and costs from baseline
• Compare health care use and costs of program participants before education and other programs are initiated and after operation of these programs
• Cervical cancer screening is a valuable early detection tool that can identify cervical cancer at an early stage, when treatment is more effective and less expensive. As screening rates improve, detection of cervical cancers will show an early overall increase. Over time, the rates of detection of early stage tumors should increase while detection of tumors already in their late stages should decrease