The economic value of changing mortality risk in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic breakdown by cause of death.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We develop a framework for quantifying monetary values associated with changes in disease-specific mortality risk in low- and middle-income countries to help quantify trade-offs involved in investing in mortality reduction due to one disease versus another.

Methods

We monetized the changes in mortality risk for communicable and non-communicable diseases (CD and NCD, respectively) between 2017 and 2030 for low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries (LICs, LMICs, and UMICs, respectively). We modeled three mortality trajectories ("base-case", "high-performance", and "low-performance") using Global Burden of Disease study forecasts and estimated disease-specific mortality risk changes relative to the base-case. We assigned monetary values to ch

SUBMITTER: Khadka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8282406 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature