DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED-SYSTEM FOR TH E CALCULATION OF THE STANDARD VALUES OF ECONOMIC DAMAGE PRODUCED BY A SINGLE-CASE OF AN INFECTIOUS-DISEASE

An original and technically realizable system for the determination of the values of economic damage produced by a single case of an infecti ous disease has been developed, based on a concrete socio-economic ana lysis. The system has been realized with the use of an IBM PC/AT by me ans of the Econ program module developed in the SuperCalc-4 tabulated processor program environment. The use of the average socio-eidemiolog ical, national economic and demographic statistical data has made it p ossible to calculate the ''standard'' values of the economic damage pr oduced by a single case of 15 infectious diseases (total average, as w ell as for different groups of patients and measures). Analysis of the values thus obtained shows their, on the average, 1.25-fold growth, a s well as their considerable variability reflecting the clinico-epidem iological nature of infectious diseases.