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.
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| Author / Creator: | Würthwein, Ralph. |
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| Imprint: | Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 2015. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (184 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Schriften des Rheinisch-Westfälischen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung ; v. 71 RWI Schriften. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12414573 |
| Summary: | 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltsübersicht: Introduction and Overview - 1. The Nouna Health District Household Survey (1): Suggesting a Prototype for the Collection of Morbidity and Household Data: Introduction - Survey Design - Practical Aspects and Field Procedures - Questionnaire - Conclusion and Outlook for Further Research - 2. The Nouna Health District Household Survey (2): From the Raw Data to the Analysis of Income: The Need for High-Quality Data - Input: The NHDHS Collected by CRSN - Improvements in Data Quality - Income Sources and Constructed Variables - Final STATA Data Set - 3. Measuring the Local Burden of Disease - A Study of Years of Life Lost in Sub-Saharan Africa: Introduction - Study Population, Methods - Results - Discussion - 4. Obtaining Disability Weights in Rural Burkina Faso - Using a Culturally Adapted Visual Analogue Scale: Introduction - Utility Measures to Evaluate Disability Weights - Methods - Results - Discussion - 5. Identifying the Private Return to Education in the Subsistence Economy of Nouna: Introduction - The Nouna Health District Household Survey - Identification Strategy - Results - Conclusion - 6. Summary - Appendix, References |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 pages) |
| ISBN: | 3428513282 9783428513284 |