Indirect costs associated with deaths from the Ebola virus disease in West Africa

Kirigia, Joses Muthuri; Masiye, Felix; Kirigia, Doris; Akweongo, Patricia

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“…The productivity losses among the six age brackets were estimated to avail information on the age groups most economically impacted by NCDs and for comparative purposes. The non-health GDP loss associated with NCD deaths among persons of a specific age group is the product of the total discounted years of life lost, per capita non-health GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) and the total NCD deaths (TND) [23]. Each country's discounted total non-health GDP loss attributable to NCD deaths was estimated using the equations (1) to (6) below [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We employed a discount rate of 3% which is commonly used in cost-of-illness studies [23,29,30], burden of disease studies [31,32] and WHO health systems' performance assessment [33,34]. In order to assess the effect of the discount rate on the total non-health GDP loss, a one-way sensitivity analysis was done at 5% and 10% discount rates.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…AAD: Average age at death; AAD 0-4 : Average age at death for those aged 0-4 years; AAD [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] : Average age at death for those aged [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] years; AAD [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] LHKN has a Master's Degree in Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa and a Bachelor of Education Degree from Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. She worked for a number of years as a financial advisor at the Old Mutual Life Assurance Company, Nairobi, Kenya.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Out of the 2.79 million NCD deaths in the region, 8% were in the age bracket 0-4 years, 5.5% in age bracket 5-14 years, 7.3% in age bracket [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] years, 26.4% in bracket group 18.5% in age bracket 60-69 years and 34.4% among those aged 70 years and above. Thus, majority of NCD deaths occurred among those aged 70 years and above.…”

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Indirect cost of non-communicable diseases deaths in the World Health Organization African Region

Kirigia¹,

Mwabu²,

M’Imunya³

et al. 2017

int arch med

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Background: In 2012, a total of 9,398,809 deaths from all causes occurred in the WHO African Region; out of which 2,788,381 (29.67%) were due to non-communicable diseases (NCD). The objective of this study was to estimate future gross domestic product (GDP) losses associated with NCD deaths in the African Region for use to advocate for increased investments into prevention and management of NCDs. Methods:Human capital approach is used to estimate non-health GDP losses associated with NCD deaths. Future non-health GDP losses were discounted at 3%. The analysis was done for three income groups of countries and six age groups. One-way sensitivity analysis at 5% and 10% discount rates was undertaken to assess the impact on expected non-health GDP loss estimates. Results: The 2,788,381 NCD deaths that occurred in the AfricanRegion in 2012 are estimated to have resulted in a total discounted GDP loss of Int$ 61,302,450,005. Out of that total loss, 20.36% was borne by those aged 0-4 years; 12.76% by 5-14 years; 16.64% by 15-29 years; 44.93% by 30-59 years; 2.99% by 60-69 years; and 2.33% by those aged 70 years and above. Thus, those aged between 15 and 59 years bore 61.57% of the GDP losses.Approximately 47.4%, 33.1% and 19.5% of the total loss was borne by high and upper middle-, lower middle-and low-income countries respectively.

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Section: Sensitivity Analysismentioning

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Section: Abbreviationsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Indirect cost of non-communicable diseases deaths in the World Health Organization African Region

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“…Kirigia et al [16] estimated the indirect cost associated with deaths from the Ebola Virus disease in West Africa. Kirigia and Muthuri [17] estimated productivity losses associated with tuberculosis deaths in AFR.…”

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Haemorrhage of gross domestic product from disability-adjusted-life-years among 15-59 year olds in Kenya

Kirigia

Mwabu

2018

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Background: This article estimates non-health gross domestic product (GDP) losses associated with Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) lost among 15-59 year olds (most productive age bracket) in Kenya in 2015.Methods: This study employs the lost output or human capital approach (HCA) to convert the DALYs lost from all causes into their monetary equivalents. The magnitude economic haemorrhage from each disease was obtained by multiplying the per capita non-health GDP in International Dollars by the total number of DALYs lost in a specific age group (15-29 years, 30-49 years, 50-59 years). Per capita non-health GDP equals per capita GDP minus total health expenditure in 2015. Data on DALYs and per capita total health expenditure were obtained from the World Health Organization and per capita GDP data was from IMF databases.Results: Kenya lost 9,405,184 DALYs among 15-59 years olds in 2015.That DALY loss caused a haemorrhage in GDP of Int$ 29,788,392,419. Approximately 48.6% of the GDP haemorrhage resulted from communicable diseases and nutritional conditions, 37.4% from non-communicable diseases, and 14.0% from injuries. Conclusion:There is need to augment domestic and external investments into national health systems and other systems that meet basic needs (education, food, water, sanitation, shelter) to reduce disease burden. In the same year the country lost a total of 21,854,898 Disability-Adjusted-Life-Years (DALYs) from all causes. Out of that total DALY loss, 59% were from communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions; 30% from non-communicable diseases (NCDs); and 11% from intentional and unintentional injuries. About 54% and 46% the total DALYs lost occurred in male and female gender respectively. Haemorrhage of Gross DomesticThe total DALYs losses were distributed unevenly across various age groups: 33.2% among 0-4 year-old; 13.6% among 5-14 year-old; 18.5% among 15-29 year-old; 18.8% among 30-49 yearold; 5.7% among 50-59 year-old; 5.1% among 60-69 year-old; and 5.1% among those aged 70 years and above [1]. Thus, 43% of the depletion in health or human capital was sustained by the most economically and socially productive age bracket of 15-59 years. The current study focuses on this age bracket.The large loss in DALYs has been attributed to weaknesses in national and local health systems responsible for providing quality health services [2,3]; systems that assure access to other basic needs (food, water, sanitation, education, clothing, shelter) or social determinants of health [4,5]; and national health research system that produces knowledge and facilitates its use in development of discoveries and innovations aimed at addressing health and socioeconomic needs [6,7].Various studies have attempted to estimate the productivity losses attributable to premature mortality from one or a group of disasters, diseases and health conditions in the WHO African Region (AFR). A study conducted in 2004 used regression modelling to estimate the impact of disaster-related mortality on gross d...

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The impact of the Ebola crisis on mortality and welfare in Liberia

Costa

2020

Health Economics

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This study assesses the impact of Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak on individual and total welfare in Liberia during 2014/15. By combining mortality and household consumption data, it estimates how much individuals would be hypothetically willing to pay to avoid the EVD-induced increase in age-and sex-specific mortality rates. The results suggest that the total welfare loss associated with EVD-related mortality ranges from $90 to $190 million, which is comparable to estimates based on the economic costs of EVD alone. In addition, the estimates lie between those derived from the cost-of-illness and value of statistical life approaches applied in previous works. This suggests that incorporating additional information on age-and sex-specific mortality, as well as individual consumption levels, provides a more accurate estimation of the welfare loss due to EVD-related mortality.

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Indirect costs associated with deaths from the Ebola virus disease in West Africa

Cited by 36 publications

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Indirect cost of non-communicable diseases deaths in the World Health Organization African Region

Indirect cost of non-communicable diseases deaths in the World Health Organization African Region

Haemorrhage of gross domestic product from disability-adjusted-life-years among 15-59 year olds in Kenya

The impact of the Ebola crisis on mortality and welfare in Liberia

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