The economics of alternative strategies for the reduction of food-borne diseases in developing countries : the case of diarrhea in Rwanda

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

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:	Witzke, Harald von ; Kirschke, Dieter ; Lotze-Campen, Hermann ; Noleppa, Steffen
Publisher:	Berlin : Humboldt-Univ.
Subject:	public health \| consumer protection \| social cost \| economics of food-borne diseases \| Ruanda \| Rwanda \| Soziale Kosten \| Social costs \| Verbraucherschutz \| Consumer protection \| Krankheit \| Disease \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Gesundheitskosten \| Health care costs \| Gesundheitswesen \| Health care system

Extent:	Online-Ressource (16 S.) graph. Darst.
Series:	Working paper / Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. - Berlin : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2497550-3. - Vol. 72/2005
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/96474 [Handle]
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
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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