The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia
The authors measure the monetary value households place on preventing malaria in Tembien, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. They estimate a household demand function for a hypothetical malaria vaccine and compute the value of preventing malaria as the house...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/01/438962/value-preventing-malaria-tembien-ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22266 |
| Summary: | The authors measure the monetary value
households place on preventing malaria in Tembien, Tigray
Region, Ethiopia. They estimate a household demand function
for a hypothetical malaria vaccine and compute the value of
preventing malaria as the households maximum willingness to
pay to provide vaccines for all family members. They
contrast willingness to pay with the traditional costs of
illness (medical costs and time lost because of malaria).
Their results indicate that the value of preventing malaria
with vaccines is about US$36 a household a year, or about 15
percent of imputed annual household income. This is, on
average, about two or three times the expected household
cost of illness. Despite the great benefits from preventing
malaria, the fact that vaccine demand is price inelastic
suggests that it will be difficult to achieve significant
market penetration unless the vaccine is subsidized. The
authors obtain similar results for insecticide-treated bed
nets. Their estimates of household demand functions for bed
nets suggest that at a price that might permit cost recovery
(US$6 a bed net), only a third of the population of a
200-person village would sleep under bed nets. |
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