Eastern African Burden of disease; cost Effectiveness and Health Policy Study

ABSTRACT

"The policy makers of Ministry of Health went [June 1993] to Washington to discuss the World Development Report (WDR) entitled ""Investing in Health"". Our Minister interacted with authors of the above report and those of ""Better health in Africa"". while there; the three minsiters of Health of Kenya; Tanzania and Uganda expressed interest in applying the same concepts and methodology to their nations. Eriteria and Ethiopia also joined in the study making it a total of five countries. This study was carried out together but each country represented by a team. The article therefore contains the outline of the methodology and the result of the study. In this study; Burden of Diseases (BOD) means the number of life years lost due to each disease every year. The exercise was very useful for each country and pointed out areas which may be improved regarding sources of funding as well as improvements which may be made in expenditures of the funding."