Opportunity cost by earlier death of Cubans active smokers in 2011

Abstract

Introduction: Smoking like consumption's social phenomena cause big troubles not only in the people individual's health, else in life expectancy too, which effect can have an important noxious component over labor productivity results. This makes evident the necessity to quantify and account the earlier active smoker death's impact over the national economy. Nevertheless, the majority of studies utilize a difficult methodology to applicant to populations studies, however the viability of application it's demonstrate largely in sample studies. Objectives: 1) To develop an analytical procedure to determinate in populations' studies especially in big magnitude, the years of labor productivity absolute lost; 2) To determinate the opportunity cost by earlier death of Cubans actives smokers over the national economy in 2011. Material and method: Theoretical methods: dialectic-materialist, analytical and logic-historical. Empiric methods: differential calculus and algebra. Results: The opportunity cost by early death of Cubans actives smokers' in 2011 was 294,5 millions of pesos. Conclusions: It is developed an analytical procedure that could give like result the years of labor productivity absolute lost in populations' studies. From the application of the previous procedure it could verify and quantify the big social cost that generated in the Cuban national economy in 2011, the earlier death of masculine actives smokers.