Economic Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada 1995-2003 Jayadeep Patra, Svetlana Popova, Jürgen Rehm, Susan Bondy, Robynne Flint & Norman Giesbrecht Prepared for the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance and the Ontario Public Health Association March 2007 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The preparation of this report was made possible through the financial support of the Public Health Agency of Canada to [...] The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the perspectives of the Public Health Agency of Canada. [...] The three indirect cost components included in this report were: cost of years of life lost due to premature death (mortality costs), and the value of activity days lost due to short-term and long-term disability (morbidity costs due to long and short-term disability). [...] Appendix 1 provides the World Health Organization’s list of chronic disease and the ten tables provide the Canadian data the form the empirical basis of this report. [...] The intent of this report is to provide a comprehensive overview of the distribution of direct and indirect costs of chronic diseases in Canada.