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    • Dollar value of disability-adjusted life years in South Africa in 2019 

      Senkubuge, Flavia; Hongoro, Charles; Kirigia, Joses Muthuri (Journal of Global Health Economics and Policy, 2021)
      Background To date, no study has estimated the dollar value of DALYs lost from a wide range of diseases and conditions in South Africa. The specific objectives of this study were: (a) to estimate the dollar value of ...

    • The monetary value of human lives lost due to neglected tropical diseases in Africa 

      Kirigia, Joses Muthuri (BioMed Central, 2017)
      Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are an important cause of death and disability in Africa. This study estimates the monetary value of human lives lost due to NTDs in the continent in 2015. The lost output or human capital ...