Economic Burden of Chronic Disease in California

Welcome!

You have arrived at a website that allows you to estimate the cost of chronic diseases in each county or region in California! The project that led to the initial generation of this data was funded by the Chronic Disease Control Branch at the California Department of Public Health using estimates from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Chronic Disease Cost Calculator, the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), and a number of other sources (see the FAQ page). The site was developed by UC Merced with funding from the California Healthcare Foundation.

The website allows you to access our estimates of the cost of six chronic diseases by ethnicity, age, gender, county and region. The cost estimates are available by:

• Chronic diseases
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including:
    • Congestive heart failure (CHF)
    • Coronary heart disease (CHD)
    • Hypertension
    • Stroke
    • Other heart diseases
  • Depression
  • Diabetes
  • Or all the chronic diseases combined (total)
• Ethnicities
  • African American
  • Asian
  • Hispanic/Latino
  • Non-Hispanic White
  • Or all the ethnicities combined (total)
• Gender
  • Male
  • Female
  • Or both genders combined (total)
• Age groups
  • 0 to 17 year olds
  • 18 to 44 year olds
  • 45 to 64 year olds
  • 64 to 79 year olds
  • 80 or older
  • Or all age groups combined (total)

• Ready to get started?
• FAQs about how the estimates were developed?
• Want to view the summary report from the Chronic Disease Control Branch at the California Department of Public Health?
• Want to view the article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice?
• Want to see the raw data?