Open AccessWHAT CAN A COMMUNITY AFFORD TO PAY TO RID ITSELF OF MALARIA?
Author(s) -
L. M. Fisher
Publication year - 1920
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.10.10.768
Subject(s) - malaria , investment (military) , limit (mathematics) , business , economics , environmental health , actuarial science , medicine , political science , law , mathematics , mathematical analysis , politics , immunology
Anti-malarial measures, like any others, have a limit beyond which they may be deemed economically unprofitable. Here are given formulae by which ratios may be figured of costs relative to benefits. For sentimental reasons, however, a community may be willing to pay somewhat more than it could afford as an investment.