The Cost of Blindness in the Republic of Ireland 2010–2020

Table 4

The average and total direct and indirect healthcare and nonhealthcare costs and burden of disease costs 2010–2020.

	2010	2015	2020
(A) Healthcare costs
Direct healthcare costs due to blindness	1,984,821; (153)	2,166,130; (142)	2,325,585; (129)
Cost of depression due to blindness	1,335,821; (103)	1,569,680; (103)	1,850,002; (103)
Cost of injurious falls due to blindness	998,668; (77)	1,069,508; (70)	1,143,804; (64)
Total	4,319,310; (332)	4,805,318; (315)	5,319,391; (296)
(B) Nonhealthcare costs
Lost productivity	57,916,287; (4,457)	63,043,004; (4,129)	67,779,362; (3,766)
Informal care	151,391,392; (11,650)	177,896,717; (11,650)	209,665,119; (11,650)
Deadweight loss	63,016,816; (4,849)	74,059,349; (4,850)	84,192,487; (4,678)
Total	272,324,495; (20,956)	314,999,070; (20,643)	361,636,968; (20,094)
Total financial cost of blindness, (A) + (B)
(C) Economic value of lost well-being	532,552,692; (40,981)	626,019,576; (40,997)	738,350,466; (41,026)
Total economic cost of blindness, (A) + (B) + (C)