MS costing tool

The MS costing tool (MS CoT) allows the user to calculate (estimate) the direct and indirect costs of MS at per-person and aggregate levels for your country by entering information about MS in your country, using a menu-driven interface. This tool (and user guide) was prepared as a companion report to the (see below).
Please note the tool is designed to run on versions of Excel prior to 2007.

Download the MS Costing Tool.xls (534 kb) and accompanying User Guide.pdf (1707 kb) here.

Global economic impact of MS

Download the report (918 kb)

On World MS Day 2010, MSIF published the Global economic impact of MS to help raise awareness of the high global costs of MS. This literature review provides international data that are useful for estimating the costs and QoL impacts of MS at the national level. A companion report above includes a cost calculator that can be used to estimate the economic impact of MS at the country level.

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The Executive Summary of the Global economic impact of MS report is available to download in several languages.