The economic impact of schistosomiasis
作者机构：Department of Economics and LandEnvironmentEconomics and Policy Institute(LEEP)University of ExeterExeterEngland 不详
出 版 物：《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》 (贫困所致传染病（英文）)
年 卷 期：2021年第10卷第6期
页 面：106-106页
核心收录：
学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学]
基 金：EPF Lausanne Swiss Network for International Studies World Health Organization, WHO Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETH
主 题：Schistosomiasis Neglected Tropical Diseases Sub-Saharan Africa Agriculture Water Resources Development Poverty
摘 要：Background:The economic impact of schistosomiasis and the underlying tradeofs between water resources devel‑opment and public health concerns have yet to be *** exerts large health,social and fnan‑cial burdens on infected individuals and *** irrigation schemes are one of the most important policy responses designed to reduce poverty,particularly in sub-Saharan Africa,they facilitate the propagation of schistoso‑miasis and other ***:We estimate the economic impact of schistosomiasis in Burkina Faso via its efect on agricultural produc‑*** create an original dataset that combines detailed household and agricultural surveys with high-resolution geo-statistical disease *** develop new methods that use the densities of the intermediate host snails of schis‑tosomiasis as instrumental variables together with panel,spatial and machine learning ***:We estimate that the elimination of schistosomiasis in Burkina Faso would increase average crop yields by around 7%,rising to 32%for high infection *** schistosomiasis unchecked,in turn,would correspond to a loss of gross domestic product of approximately 0.8%.We identify the disease burden as a shock to the agricultural productivity of *** poorest households engaged in subsistence agriculture bear a far heavier disease burden than their wealthier counterparts,experiencing an average yield loss due to schistosomiasis of between 32 and 45%.We show that the returns to water resources development are substantially reduced once its health efects are taken into account:villages in proximity of large-scale dams sufer an average yield loss of around 20%,and this burden decreases as distance between dams and villages ***:This study provides a rigorous estimation of how schistosomiasis afects agricultural production and how it is both a driver and a consequence of *** further quantifes the tradeof between the economics of wa
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