The Economics of Alternative Strategies for the Reduction of Food-borne Diseases in Developing Countries: The Case of Diarrhea in Rwanda

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 simple treatments such as Oral Rehydration Therapy have a higher social rate of return than consumer protection via education.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	von Witzke, Harald ; Kirschke, Dieter ; Lotze-Campen, Hermann ; Noleppa, Steffen
Institutions:	Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Subject:	public health \| consumer protection \| social cost \| economics of food-borne diseases \| Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety \| Health Economics and Policy

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences>Working Paper Series Number 18830
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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