Disease-Related Costs Published in The Middle East and North Africa Region: Systematic Review and Analysis of Transferability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) the scarcity of local cost data is a key barrier to conducting health economic evaluations. We systematically reviewed reports of disease-related costs from MENA and analysed their transferability within the region.

Methods

We searched PubMed and included full text English papers that reported disease-related costs from the local populations of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen between 1995 and 2019. Screening, study selection and data extraction were done in duplicate. Study-related variables, costing methods, all costs and their characteristics were extracted and analysed via descriptive methods. Fr

SUBMITTER: Zrubka Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9130178 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature