TY - GEN

AU - Würthwein, Ralph

TI - Measuring the Burden of Disease and Returns to Education in Rural West Africa The Collection and Analysis of Mortality, Morbidity, and Socio-Economic Data in the Nouna Health District in Burkina Faso

ET - 1. Aufl

PB - Duncker & Humblot

SN - 9783428513284

SN - 9783428113286

KW - Morbidität

KW - Sterblichkeit

KW - Gesundheitsökonomik

KW - Bildungsertrag

KW - Erwerbsunfähigkeit

KW - Ländlicher Raum

KW - Schätzung

KW - Burkina Faso

KW - Datenerhebung

KW - disability adjusted life year

KW - Haushalt

KW - Landbevölkerung

KW - Einkommen

KW - Ausgaben

KW - Aufwendung

KW - Kosten

KW - Medizinische Versorgung

KW - Krankheit

KW - Bildungsfinanzierung

KW - Wirtschaftsstatistik

KW - Sozialstatistik

KW - Westafrika /Bildung, Erziehung

KW - Westafrika /Einkommensteuer

KW - Westafrika /Gesundheitswesen

KW - Hochschulschrift

KW - Ländlicher Haushalt

KW - Krankheitskosten

KW - Einkommensverwendung

KW - Sozialer Indikator

PY - 2003

N2 - The success of health economics and its guidance for health policy heavily rests on the availability of reliable empirical evidence on the demographic, economic, and epidemiological environment, on behavioral relationships, and on the impact of policy interventions. For Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the epidemiological situation is unclear, since comprehensive systems of mortality and health statistics are often absent. -- The economic analysis of health naturally places a special focus on the interrelation between health and economic well-being: the overall disease burden decreases when a country grows richer, and the share of communicable diseases decreases in the process of economic development, whereas the share of non-communicable diseases increases. In those parts of Sub-Saharan Africa that are mainly dominated by traditional subsistence farming, however, it is difficult to examine questions of income and health for simple fundamental reasons. A vital prerequisite for an empirical investigation is the thorough and accurate measurement of income. Yet, both the measurement of the burden of disease and the measurement of income are research tasks that are far from being fulfilled for Sub-Saharan Africa. A further issue that is related with economic well-being and health is education. For poor rural regions predominated by traditional subsistence farming it is far from clear whether investments in human capital are worthwhile. -- The present study addesses this research gap by producing empirical evidence on the measurement of the burden of disease, the structure of income, and returns to education in rural West Africa. Concretely it deals with the collection and analysis of mortality, morbidity, and socio-economic data in the Nouna Health District in the North-West of Burkina Faso. The study was accepted as a doctoral thesis at the University of Heidelberg. Earlier versions of some of its chapters have been published as working papers or in international journals

BT - Schriften des Rheinisch-Westfälischen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung ; 71

CY - Berlin

UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2

ER -