Health and economic burden of influenza-associated illness in South Africa, 2013-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Economic burden estimates are essential to guide policy-making for influenza vaccination, especially in resource-limited settings.

Methods

We estimated the cost, absenteeism, and years of life lost (YLL) of medically and non-medically attended influenza-associated mild and severe respiratory, circulatory and non-respiratory/non-circulatory illness in South Africa during 2013-2015 using a modified version of the World Health Organization (WHO) worksheet based tool for estimating the economic burden of seasonal influenza. Additionally, we restricted the analysis to influenza-associated severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and influenza-like illness (ILI; subsets of all-respiratory illnesses) as suggested in the WHO manual.

Results

The estimated mean annual

SUBMITTER: Tempia S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692552 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature