Comparative impact of COVID-19 and common diseases on poverty in Cameroon and sustainable response strategies
Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences
; 18(3):625-634, 2023.
Article
in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-2322712
ABSTRACT
In the context of a developing country like Cameroon characterized by the scarcity of financial resources and the appearance of Covid-19, this article shows that this pandemic was not more important than the pre-existing health problems to the point of giving it more importance in funding compared to strengthening the health system. The theoretical elasticity model of the poverty rate to growth is used to estimate the impact of Covid-19 and the incidence of impoverishing health expenditure is used for the impact of common diseases. It is estimated through direct health payments that common diseases push about 340,865 people into extreme poverty annually. The Covid-19, through the loss of growth generated between 4.8 and 6.6 points according to the optimistic or pessimistic scenarios, would impoverish between 224,193 and 398,565 people impact on the number of poor ranging from 0.7 to 1.2 times that of all common diseases, i.e., equivalent on average, but sensitive to the speed of spread of the virus and the duration of the crisis while the impact of common diseases is structural and linked to the poorly performing health system. The solutions proposed are endogenous and linked to the impact mechanisms.
Prion; Viral; Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans [VV210]; Health Economics [EE118]; Income and Poverty [EE950]; human diseases; coronavirus disease 2019; viral diseases; pandemics; public health; poverty; disease incidence; epidemiology; expenditure; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; man; Cameroon; Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirinae; Coronaviridae; Nidovirales; positive-sense ssRNA Viruses; ssRNA Viruses; RNA Viruses; viruses; Homo; Hominidae; primates; mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals; eukaryotes; ACP Countries; Central Africa; Africa South of Sahara; Africa; Francophone Africa; lower-middle income countries; medium Human Development Index countries; SARS-CoV-2; viral infections; subsaharan Africa
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English
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Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences
Year:
2023
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Article
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