The economics of reducing food-borne diseases in developing countries: the case of diarrhea in Rwanda

Harald von Witzke, Dieter Kirschke, Hermann Lotze-Campen and Steffen Noleppa

German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005, vol. 54, issue 07, 6

Abstract: The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the social cost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public health analysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-borne diarrhea in Rwanda. The results suggest that both prevention and treatment are socially very profitable. However, simple treatments such as Oral Rehydration Therapy have a higher social rate of return than prevention.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.97395

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