Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 140, Issue 3, Pages 500-509Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000513
Keywords
Cholera; health economics
Funding
- Diseases of the Most Impoverished (DOMI) Program
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Economic analyses of cholera immunization programmes require estimates of the costs of cholera. The Diseases of the Most Impoverished programme measured the public, provider, and patient costs of culture-confirmed cholera in four study sites with endemic cholera using a combination of hospital-and community-based studies. Families with culture-proven cases were surveyed at home 7 and 14 days after confirmation of illness. Public costs were measured at local health facilities using a micro-costing methodology. Hospital-based studies found that the costs of severe cholera were US$32 and US$47 in Matlab and Beira. Community-based studies in North Jakarta and Kolkata found that cholera cases cost between US$28 and US$206, depending on hospitalization. Patients' cost of illness as a percentage of average monthly income were 21% and 65% for hospitalized cases in Kolkata and North Jakarta, respectively. This burden on families is not captured by studies that adopt a provider perspective.
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