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The health and economic burden of podoconiosis in Ethiopia

Author(s) -

Kebede Deribe,

Nebiyu Negussu,

Melanie J. Newport,

Gail Davey,

Hugo C. Turner

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

transactions of the royal society of tropical medicine and hygiene

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725

H-Index - 105

eISSN - 1878-3503

pISSN - 0035-9203

DOI - 10.1093/trstmh/traa003

Subject(s) - environmental health , medicine , productivity , economic cost , indirect costs , quality adjusted life year , economic impact analysis , disease burden , cost effectiveness , economic growth , business , economics , population , risk analysis (engineering) , neoclassical economics , accounting , microeconomics

Podoconiosis is one of the leading causes of lymphoedema-related morbidity in low-income settings, but little is known about the scale of its health and economic impact. This information is required to inform control programme planning and policy. In this study, we estimated the health and economic burden of podoconiosis in Ethiopia.

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