Journal article

The economic consequences of neurosurgical disease in low- and middle-income countries

Niclas Rudolfson, Michael C Dewan, Kee B Park, Mark G Shrime, John G Meara, Blake C Alkire

Journal of Neurosurgery | AMER ASSOC NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.3171/2017.12.JNS17281

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Keywords

Costs
Vsl = Value of a Statistical Life
Usd = Us Dollars
Daly = Disability-Adjusted Life Year
Neurosciences & Neurology
Health
Surgery
Vlo = Value of Lost Output
Tbi = Traumatic Brain Injury
Gbd = Global Burden of Disease
Death
Surgical Procedures
Global Burden
Operative
Ppp = Purchasing Power Parity
Cost of Illness
Economics
Hic = High-Income Country
Gdp = Gross Domestic Product
Mortality
Ihme = Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Neurosurgical Procedures
Hydrocephalus
Science & Technology
Statistical Life
Epic = Projecting the Economic Cost of Ill-Health
Lmics = Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Ie = Income Elasticity
Vlw = Value of Lost Economic Welfare
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Clinical Neurology
Lcogs = Lancet Commission On Global Surgery
Vsly = Value of a Statistical Life Year
Air-Pollution
Global Health