Monetary Value of Disability-Adjusted Life Years and Potential Productivity Losses Associated With Neglected Tropical Diseases in the East African Community

• Main Authors: Kirigia JM, Kubai PK
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Dove Medical Press 2023
• Subjects: neglected tropical diseases; disability-adjusted life years; gross domestic product; current health expenditure; non-health gdp per capita; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Daly
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/e417349b8a404983857de0fb9041280b

Joses Muthuri Kirigia,1 Patrick Kinyua Kubai2 1African Sustainable Development Research Consortium (ASDRC), Nairobi, Kenya; 2Meru University of Science and Technology (MUST), Meru, KenyaCorrespondence: Joses Muthuri Kirigia, ASDRC, P.O. Box 6994 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya, Email [e-mail]: In 2019, the East African Community (EAC) lost 12,048,918 disability-adjusted life-years (DALY) across all ages from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The specific objectives of the study reported in the paper were to estimate for EAC the monetary value of DALYs sustained by all ages from NTDs, and the potential productivity losses within the working age bracket of 15 years and above.Methods: The EAC total monetary value of DALYs lost from all 20 NTDs is the sum of each partner state’s monetary value of DALYs lost from all 20 NTDs. The ith partner state’s monetary value of DALY from jth disease equals ith state’s GDP per capita net of current health expenditure multiplied by DALYs lost from jth disease in 2019. The EAC total productivity losses attributable to DALYs lost from all 20 NTDs is the sum of lost productivity across the seven partner states. The ith partner state’s productivity loss associated with jth disease equals ith state’s GDP per capita net of current health expenditure multiplied by DALYs lost from jth disease and the ith state’s labour force participation rate adjusted for underutilization (unemployment and time-related underemployment) in 2019.Results: The total 12,048,918 DALYs lost in EAC from NTDs had a of International Dollars (Int$) 21,824,211,076 and an average of Int$ 1811 per DALY. The 2,614,464 DALYs lost from NTD among 15-year-olds and above caused an estimated of Int$ 2,588,601,097 (0.392% of the EAC gross domestic product in 2019), and an average of Int$ 990.1 per DALY.Conclusion: The study succeeded in estimating the monetary value of DALYs sustained by all ages from 20 NTDs, and the potential productivity losses within the working age bracket of 15 years and above ...