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M Over

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PubMed1993

Adult health: a legitimate concern for developing countries.

Adults, defined here as people between 15 and 59 years of age, in developing countries have a high risk of premature death and suffer from frequent morbidity and high rates of chronic impairment. Their ill health imposes a major burden on health services and large negative consequences on families, communities, and societies. This paper describes the level and impact of adult mortality and morbidity, and highlights some of its characteristics and causes, which in some cases contradict commonly held beliefs. It concludes that "adult health" is a legitimate public health concern for developing countries that is not being addressed. An agenda for remedial research and action is proposed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

Guidelines for rapid estimation of the direct and indirect costs of HIV infection in a developing country.

The economic impact of AIDS may be especially severe in developing nations because of the additional burden on scarce health care resources and the potential loss of human capital. We describe a methodology for estimating the direct and indirect costs of HIV infection. Our approach is designed for the typical environment of international economic consulting, where time is short, and data sparse. We focus on HIV rather than AIDS because the only way now known to prevent AIDS is to prevent HIV infection.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1986

The effect of scale on cost projections for a primary health care program in a developing country.

Accurate estimation of the recurrent costs of primary health care (PHC) activities is essential in light of the need for governments to assess whether and how these costs can be financed. This paper argues that expansion of the PHC activites will result in diseconomies of scale that are not captured by constant average cost projections of recurrent costs. An alternative estimation method which captures the effect of rising average unit costs is proposed with application of this method to data from the Republic of Niger. Results of the analysis show that the 'r-coefficient' (ratio of investment to recurrent costs) for PHC activities can double and costs can be 3 times larger after 12 years.

Community Health Services↗