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| Authors |
Anna Månsdotter Lars Lindholm Anna Winkvist |
|---|---|
| Published in | Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-15 |
| ISSN | 0168-8510 |
| Publication year | 2007 |
| Published at |
Institute of Medicine, Department of Clinical Nutrition |
| Pages | 102-15 |
| Language | en |
| Links |
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2006... |
| Keywords | Cost-Benefit Analysis, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, trends, Parental Leave, economics, Registries, Risk Assessment, State Medicine, Sweden, epidemiology |
| Subject categories | Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Economics and Business, Gender Studies |
OBJECTIVES: The initial objective is to examine the relationship between paternity leave in 1978-1979 and male mortality during 1981-2001, and the second objective is to calculate the cost-effectiveness of the 1974 parental insurance reform in Sweden. METHODS: Based on a population of all Swedish couples who had their first child together in 1978 (45,801 males), the risk of death for men who took paternity leave, compared with men who did not, was estimated by odds ratios. The cost-effectiveness analysis considered costs for information, administration and production losses, minus savings due to decreased sickness leave and inpatient care, compared to health gains in life-years and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). RESULTS: It is demonstrated that fathers who took paternity leave have a statistically significant decreased death risk of 16%. Costs minus savings (discounted values) stretch from a net cost of EUR 19 million to a net saving of EUR 11 million, and the base case cost-effectiveness is EUR 8000 per QALY. CONCLUSIONS: The study indicates that that the right to paternity leave is a desirable reform based on commonly stated public health, economic, and feminist goals. The critical issue in future research should be to examine impact from health-related selection.
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