Data · dataset · 2026
The economic burden of meningitis to households in Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana
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Objective: To estimate the direct and indirect costs of meningitis to households in the Kassena-Nankana District of Ghana.
Description
Methods
A Cost of illness (COI) survey was conducted between 2010 and 2011. The COI was computed from a retrospective review of 80 meningitis cases answers to questions about direct medical costs, direct non-medical costs incurred and productivity losses due to recent meningitis incident. Results: The average direct and indirect costs of treating meningitis in the district was GH¢152.55 (US$101.7) per household.
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This is equivalent to about two months minimum wage earned by Ghanaians in unskilled paid jobs in 2009. Households lost 29 days of work per meningitis case and thus those in minimum wage paid jobs lost a monthly minimum wage of GH¢76.85 (US$51.23) due to the illness. Patients who were insured spent an average of GH¢38.5 (US$25.67) in direct medical costs whiles the uninsured patients spent as much as GH¢177.9 (US$118.6) per case.
Patients with sequelae incurred additional costs of GH¢22.63 (US$15.08) per case. The least poor were more exposed to meningitis than the poorest. Conclusion: Meningitis is a debilitating but preventable disease that affects people living in the Sahel and in poorer conditions.
The cost of meningitis treatment may further lead to impoverishment for these households. Widespread mass vaccination will save households' an equivalent of GH¢175.18 (US$117) and impairment due to meningitis.
Links
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- Publisher page n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7n58n9p ↗
documentation · download · from data ucar edu
Where it is published
- data.ucar.edu /dataset/the-economic-burden-of-meningitis-to-households-in-kas… ↗
National Center for Atmospheric Research dataset page
landing page · from data ucar edu
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=4604eec8-367c-474a-a2f4-f24ab11ea… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Disease 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research | 4604eec8-367c-474a-a2f4-f24ab11ea833 | 9 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[disease].local:disease:disease | enrichment · data ucar edu | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /notes |
| publication_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 |