The Economics of Alternative Strategiesfor the Reduction of Food-borneDiseases in Developing Countries:The Case of Diarrhea in Rwanda

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the socialcost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public healthanalysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-bornediarrhea in Rwanda. The results suggest that simple treatments such as Oral RehydrationTherapy have a higher social rate of return than consumer protection via education....

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Witzke, Harald von ; Kirschke, Dieter ; Lotze-Campen, Hermann ; Noleppa, Steffen
Institutions:	Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät
Subject:	Gesundheitswesen \| public health sector \| Soziale Kosten \| Verbraucherschutz

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Series:	HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN - Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät - Working Paper des Instituts Working Paper ; Nr. 72/2005
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior ; I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Corporate statistics and corporate cost accounting ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; NORTHERN AFRICA
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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