Estimating Cost Analysis for Health Care Services Delivered to Animal Bites Patients in Qom Province

Animal bites considered as one of the issues and problems of public health .Increasing number of animal bites is a very important, because of its potential risk of rabies disease and economic damage. This study was performed to evaluate the cost for health care services delivered to animal bites patients in Qom Province.
This cross - sectional study based on data from animal bite patients in Qom, during 2015 was performed. At first, by using the forms that made by researchers, the direct and overhead costs related with the health services in the studied areas were calculated. This costs obtained by visiting the archives and accounting documents. The price paid for out of pocket cost per patient and treatment services to patients and the overall total costs were calculated using Excel software.
During 2015 a total of more than 961 million tomans have spent on providing health services to 844 patients with Brucellosis in Qom. Direct health care costs about 913 million tomans,overhead, about 48 million tomans, the state cost per patient over 1 million and 139 thousand tomans, the patient's out of pocket costs to the patient and finally the average total cost of about 30 thousand tomans during one year of service to each of these patients was estimated at 1,169,000 tomans.
Based on results, considerable costs for treatment and prevention of rabies spent in Qom. So health planners should give priority to prevent this disease in their programs.