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Health Economics: Potential Applications in HIV/AIDS Control in Africa
There is growing evidence that HIV/AIDS has enormous negative impact on
health status and economic development of individuals, households,
communities and nations in the African region [33]. Thus, there is
urgent need for various disciplines to demonstrate how they can
contribute in curbing the spread of this deadly disease in the African
region. This paper, using an extended version of Professor Alan
Williams [32] schema as the conceptual framework, attempts to
demonstrate how health economics can be used to inform policy and
managerial choices related to HIV/AIDS advocacy, prevention, treatment
and management. It argues that the discipline of health economics (and
economics generally) is extremely valuable in: measuring health impacts
of the disease and interventions; evaluating the relationships between
health care-seeking behaviour of individuals and health system specific
attributes; the estimation of determinants of compliance of HIV/AIDS
patients with treatment regimen; establishing of health institutions
efficiency in combating AIDS; guiding choices of HIV/AIDS
interventions; assessing the relationships between HIV/AIDS,
development, poverty, and trade; programme planning, monitoring and
evaluation; and assessing health system's overall performance. The
paper is a modest attempt to show how the discipline of health
economics can elucidate, and help in resolving practical and conceptual
issues in HIV/AIDS control in Africa
Health economics: potential applications in HIV/AIDS control in Africa
There is growing evidence that HIV/AIDS has enormous negative impact on health status and economic development of individuals, households, communities and nations in the African region [33]. Thus, there is urgent need for various disciplines to demonstrate how they can contribute in curbing the spread of this deadly disease in the African region. This paper, using an extended version of Professor Alan Williams [32] schema as the conceptual framework, attempts to demonstrate how health economics can be used to inform policy and managerial choices related to HIV/AIDS advocacy, prevention, treatment and management. It argues that the discipline of health economics (and economics generally) is extremely valuable in: measuring health impacts of the disease and interventions; evaluating the relationships between health care-seeking behaviour of individuals and health system specific attributes; the estimation of determinants of compliance of HIV/AIDS patients with treatment regimen; establishing of health institutions efficiency in combating AIDS; guiding choices of HIV/AIDS interventions; assessing the relationships between HIV/AIDS, development, poverty, and trade; programme planning, monitoring and evaluation; and assessing health system's overall performance. The paper is a modest attempt to show how the discipline of health economics can elucidate, and help in resolving practical and conceptual issues in HIV/AIDS control in Africa.African Journal of Health Sciences Vol. 12(1-2) 2005: 1-1