Cost analysis for rehabilitation services in Zimbabwe:a report prepared for the World Health Organisation

ABSTRACT

Like in most developing countries; there is paucity of cost data on the provision of rehabilitation services especially programme specific cost data in Zimbabwe. This study therefore endeavoured to test the WHO protocol on cost of heath services to cost rehabilitation services. The aim was to generate field information that would enable design of a protocol that can be effectively employed in other countries for costing rehabilitation services. The study is an economic study analysis of rehabilitation services which does not only look at financial costs but also social costs. An analysis of economics is a necessary pre requisite to the effective efficient expansion of rehabilitation services in Zimbabwe. Information on costs and possible simulations of changes in scale or organisational arrangements of community based rehablitation provides crucial baseline information for informed decision making