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Determining malaria effects in rural Colombia

E Bonilla1, A Rodriguez

  • 1CEDE-Facultad de Economia, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

Social Science & Medicine (1982)
|November 1, 1993
PubMed
Summary

This study quantifies the economic impact of malaria within households in agricultural economies. It examines how families reallocate labor and time to mitigate financial losses caused by the disease.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Economics
  • Tropical Medicine

Background:

  • Good health is crucial for human potential and economic development.
  • Tropical diseases significantly impact individual and family welfare, particularly in agricultural economies.
  • Quantifying the economic losses from tropical diseases is challenging due to difficulties in valuing time and labor, and the disproportionate effect on low-income groups.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the intra-familial economic losses due to malaria.
  • To examine the complex interactions between individual illness and family welfare in an agricultural economy.
  • To understand the economic consequences of malaria through an analysis of time-losses and labor reallocations.

Main Methods:

  • Case-control approach.
  • Analysis of time-losses within households.
  • Examination of labor reallocations within the household.

Main Results:

  • Malaria significantly impacts household economies through time-losses and labor reallocations.
  • Families actively strive to minimize the economic effects of malaria, masking its true impact.
  • The study highlights the underestimation of economic implications when focusing solely on earnings effects.

Conclusions:

  • Quantifying the economic impact of diseases like malaria is essential for public health initiatives.
  • Understanding intra-familial economic adjustments is key to grasping the full consequences of tropical diseases.
  • Further research is needed to accurately assess the economic burden of tropical diseases on vulnerable populations.

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