The Cost of Lost Productivity Due to Premature Chagas Disease-Related Mortality: Lessons from Colombia (2010-2017).
Mario J OliveraFrancisco Palencia-SánchezMartha Riaño-CasallasPublished in: Tropical medicine and infectious disease (2021)
The productivity costs of premature mortality due to Chagas disease are significant. These results provide an economic measure of the Chagas burden which can help policy makers allocate resources to continue with early detection programs.