A recent study from researchers at Hanyang University College of Medicine in Goyang, South Korea, aimed to measure — in dollars and years — the impact of ADHD on its domestic economy.
Researchers studied the National Health Insurance claims data for the Korean population ages 19 and younger. By combining years lived with disability due to morbidity and years lived of life lost due to premature mortality, the disability-adjusted life years aggregates the total burden of ADHD into a single measure in units of healthy life lost. For the 69,353 people diagnosed with ADHD, the burden of the disorder was 32,605 DALYs.
Researchers concluded that ADHD is responsible for a large percentage of the total disease-related burden on the South Korean economy, in large part because the condition is lifelong.Hong, M., Park, B., Lee, S. M., Bahn, G. H., Kim, M. J., Park, S., … Park, H. “Economic Burden and Disability-Adjusted Life Years of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.”
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