Laxminarayan Ramanan
Resources for the Future, Washington DC 20036, USA.
Trop Med Int Health. 2004 Feb;9(2):267-72. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01171.x.
Living in malaria-endemic regions places an economic burden on households even if they do not actually suffer an episode of malaria. Households living in endemic malarial regions are less likely to have access to economic opportunities and may have to modify agricultural practices and other household behaviour to adapt to their disease environment. Data from Vietnam demonstrate that reductions in malaria incidence through government-financed malaria control programmes can contribute to higher household income for all households in endemic areas. Empirically, the roughly 60% decline in malaria cases over the 1990s in Vietnam translated to a dollars 12.60 average improvement in annual consumption of all households, or a roughly dollars 180 million annual economic benefit in the form of improved living standards.
即使没有实际感染疟疾，生活在疟疾流行地区也会给家庭带来经济负担。生活在疟疾流行地区的家庭获得经济机会的可能性较小，可能不得不改变农业生产方式和其他家庭行为以适应疾病环境。越南的数据表明，通过政府资助的疟疾控制项目降低疟疾发病率，有助于提高流行地区所有家庭的收入。从经验来看，越南在20世纪90年代疟疾病例数下降了约60%，这意味着所有家庭的年消费平均提高了12.60美元，或者说以生活水平提高的形式带来了约1.8亿美元的年度经济效益。
