Study of elderly person's quality of life who reside in residential care in primary health care

<p><b>Note that column totals are independently modeled and may therefore not exactly match age-specific output summaries.</b></p

Map of Tanzania showing the location of districts affected by sleeping sickness including Urambo district.

<p>Map of Tanzania showing the location of districts affected by sleeping sickness including Urambo district.</p

Years of Life Lived with Disability (YLD) due to <i>T.b. rhodesiense</i> HAT in Urambo.

<p>Disability weights of 0.21 (approximating to a limited ability to perform most activities in one of the following areas: recreation, education, procreation or occupation <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000868#pntd.0000868-Kibona2" target="_blank">[24]</a>) and 0.81 (needing assistance with instrumental activities of daily living such as meal preparation, shopping and housework <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000868#pntd.0000868-Kibona2" target="_blank">[24]</a>) were used for the early and late stage cases respectively in these calculations.</p><p>The results are expressed as mean values with 95% confidence intervals in brackets, these were obtained from 10000 Monte-Carlo simulations of the data derived from 2000–2007 Urambo sleeping sickness cases.</p><p><b>Note that column totals are independently modeled and may therefore not exactly match age-specific output summaries.</b></p

Non-medical indirect costs incurred per individual sleeping sickness patient attending Kaliua health centre estimated in US$.

<p>Non-medical indirect costs incurred per individual sleeping sickness patient attending Kaliua health centre estimated in US$.</p

Information required for the estimation of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) for <i>rhodesiense</i> sleeping sickness.

<p>Information required for the estimation of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) for <i>rhodesiense</i> sleeping sickness.</p