Macroeconomic costs of the unmet burden of surgical disease in Sierra Leone: a retrospective economic analysis.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery estimated that low/middle-income countries will lose an estimated cumulative loss of US$12.3 trillion from gross domestic product (GDP) due to the unmet burden of surgical disease. However, no country-specific data currently exist. We aimed to estimate the costs to the Sierra Leone economy from death and disability which may have been averted by surgical care. DESIGN:We used estimates of total, met and unmet need from two main sources-a cluster randomised, cross-sectional, countrywide survey and a retrospective, nationwide study on surgery in Sierra Leone. We calculated estimated disability-adjusted life years from morbidity and mortality for the estimated unmet burden and modelled the likely economic impact using three different methods-g

SUBMITTER: Grimes CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5857688 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature