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 conditions | Ethnicities | Gender | Age groups |
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Arthritis | African American | Male | 0 to 17 |
Asthma | Asian | Female | 18 to 44 |
Cancer | Hispanic/Latino | 45 to 64 | |
Cardiovascular | Non-Hispanic White | 64 to 79 | |
Depression | 80 or older | ||
Diabetes | |||
All conditions combined | All ethnicities combined | Both genders combined | All age groups combined |