The economic loss due to treatment costs and work loss to individuals with chronic lymphatic filariasis in rural communities of Orissa, India

Babu, B.V.; Nayak, A. N.; Dhal, Kalpataru; Acharya, A.S; Jangid, P. K.; Mallick, G.

doi:10.1016/s0001-706x(02)00030-x

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“…interviews, consistent with the literature that indirect costs in chronic illness can be large (McIntyre et al, 2006), often higher than direct (Babu et al, 2002); quantitative analysis of indirect costs would have been useful to confirm this. The observation that households' expenditure patterns fell into distinct groups (Figure 2) could have been spurious.…”

Section: Critique Of Methodssupporting

confidence: 64%

Barriers to managing chronic illness among urban households in coastal Kenya

Porter¹,

Chuma

Molyneux

2009

J of Intl Development

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The burden of chronic illnesses is rising throughout the world but information on barriers to managing such diseases in developing countries is scarce. Qualitative data from focus group discussions and interview transcripts from a longitudinal study involving 22 households in urban, coastal Kenya were analysed. Themes around barriers to chronic illness care were identified and a conceptual framework developed which described relationships between these themes. The main barrier to chronic illness management was the cost of care. Other barriers identified were patient knowledge and beliefs, stigma, quality and trust in providers and long care pathways. Household resilience was adversely affected by chronic illness, further reducing households' ability to cope with illness. Policy options to address the barriers identified are discussed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Critique Of Methodssupporting

confidence: 64%

Barriers to managing chronic illness among urban households in coastal Kenya

Porter¹,

Chuma

Molyneux

2009

J of Intl Development

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“…Researches on the effects of poverty on the health status and also inequality in health have been published. 2,3 Furthermore, in several poverty reduction strategy reports of countries, poor health has been recognized as a dimension of poverty. Emphasis on the impoverishing effect of health expenditures takes its origin from the World Health Organization's (WHO) announcement of equitable contribution for financing of health costs as one of the three goals of the health systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Household Health Spending and Impoverishment: Findings from the Households Survey in Shiraz, Iran

Khammarnia

Keshtkaran

Kavosi

et al. 2015

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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The present study aimed to investigate the households' impoverishment due to the healthcare costs in Shiraz in 2012. In this household's survey, 800 households were studied in Shiraz. The study sample was selected using stratified and cluster sampling in the urban and rural areas, respectively. The information was collected using the household section of the World Health Survey questionnaire. In order to determine impoverishment due to health spending, at first, the households' food-based poverty line (subsistence expenditure) was measured. Then, households' health expenditure was subtracted from their total expenditure and if the obtained value was lower than the households' food-based poverty line, the households was considered to be impoverished due to health expenditures. The collected data were entered into the SPSS (version 16) statistical software and analyzed using descriptive statistic, Chi-square test, and logistic regression in backward method. The study results showed that 7.1% of the households (CI: 0.071±0.018) were impoverished because of healthcare expenditures. Besides, the households in the first quintile were more likely to be faced with poverty compared to those in the other quintiles (p<0.05). Being covered by health insurance did not affect the protection from poverty due to health costs. Moreover, the participants living in rural areas were faced with poverty more than those living in urban areas (p<0.05). It seems that health expenditure can be an economic shock for household in Shiraz and through spending on health a household may fall into poverty. As insurance had no effect on impoverishment, it implies that change in health insurance plans and ways of health financing is necessary.

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“…They added that absenteeism is chiefly accounted for by health issues, with respiratory and musculoskeletal problems being the two main causes. For example, focusing just on lost working days as a result of sickness bouts in malaria affected areas, adults can expect on average about two bouts of malarial fever yearly, with each bout resulting to a loss of 5 to 10 working days (Babu et al, 2002). This leads to a reduction of about 5 percent in worker productivity (Murray and Lopez, 1996).…”

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The Contribution of Public Health Investments to the Economic Growth of Cameroon

2017

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The goal of this paper is to determine the contribution of public health investments to the economic growth of Cameroon. The study used the human capital model of Lucas (1988) within the framework of endogenous growth theories. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was employed in the estimations procedure using the World Development Indicators (WDI, 2013) data from the World Bank over the period spanning from 1988 to 2013.The findings show that government health expenditures contribute to economic growth only in the long run. From our results, we recommend that: first, the government should increase health spending to 10 or 15 percent of its GDP as initially suggested by the African Union and the World Health Organization respectively; second, government should enhance the provision of health care services by the private sector by putting in place incitation measures; third, competitive awards should be granted to those health units that render quality health care services.

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The economic loss due to treatment costs and work loss to individuals with chronic lymphatic filariasis in rural communities of Orissa, India

Cited by 65 publications

References 13 publications

Barriers to managing chronic illness among urban households in coastal Kenya

Barriers to managing chronic illness among urban households in coastal Kenya

The Household Health Spending and Impoverishment: Findings from the Households Survey in Shiraz, Iran

The Contribution of Public Health Investments to the Economic Growth of Cameroon

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