National Insurance Institute of Israel Reports Findings in Disaster Prevention and Management (The Direct and Indirect Costs of Treating the Victims of the 2016 Nice Terror Attacks in a Single Pediatric Hospital)

2021 MAY 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics, Law & Government Daily -- New research on Disaster Preparedness - Disaster Prevention and Management is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Jerusalem, Israel, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To analyze the cost of the terror attack in Nice in a single pediatric institution. We carried out descriptive analyses of the data coming from the Lenval University Children’s Hospital of Nice database after the July 14, 2016 terror attack.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the National Insurance Institute of Israel, “The medical cost for each patient was estimated from the invoice that the hospital sent to public insurance. The indirect costs were calculated from the hospital’s accounting, as the items that were previously absent or the difference between costs in 2016 versus the previous year. The costs total 1.56 million USD, corresponding to 2% of Lenval Hospital’s 2016 annual budget. Direct medical costs represented 9% of the total cost. The indirect costs were related to human resources (overtime, sick leave), revenue shortfall, and security and psychiatric reinforcement. Indirect costs had a greater impact than did direct medical costs.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Examining the level and variety of direct and indirect costs will lead to a better understanding of the consequences of terror acts and to improved preparation for future attacks.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Direct and Indirect Costs of Treating the Victims of the 2016 Nice Terror Attacks in a Single Pediatric Hospital. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2021:1-4. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness can be contacted at: Cambridge Univ Press, 32 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Eytan Ellenberg, Office of Medical Affairs, National Insurance Institute of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel. Additional authors for this research include Federico Solla, Virginie Rampal, Julien Margaine, Charles Musoff, Mark Taragin, Antoine Tran and Ishay Ostfeld.

The publisher’s contact information for the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness is: Cambridge Univ Press, 32 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA.

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