This report explores the economic effects that arise from the condition of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in the UK.
The research was conducted in a number of different ways: by asking individual people living with IBD about the effect it has had on their working lives; by estimating the financial losses to employers from staff taking time off from work due to IBD; by conducting a matched-pair analysis with a carefully selected control group to explore connections between income and having IBD; and, separately, between take-up of state benefits and having IBD.