Table 3

Mean annual costs (in 2002 US $) of all health-related surveillance and IDSR per category of resources in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Eritrea
Health structure level
 Cost category
 Burkina Faso§
 Mali
 Eritrea




All health-related surveillance
 IDSR
 All health-related surveillance
 IDSR
 All health-related surveillance
 IDSR
Region
 Personnel
 15,275
 3,568
 25,951
 11,353
 82,589
 32,622

Transport
 13,015
 4,771
 18,226
 7,292
 4,137
 3,309

Office
 13,102
 5,471
 31,362
 10,889
 67,032
 27,643

Media
 1,664
 238
 4,515
 1,481
 0
 0

Treatment
 55,964§
 12,391§
 14,007
 3,594
 30,789
 3,506

Laboratory
 27,275§
 5,032§
 9,156
 2,301
 12,759
 1,726

Capital
 11,271
 4,429
 8,368
 2,663
 8,026
 1,114








District
 Personnel
 7,735
 1,686
 18,484
 7,341
 7,488
 3,541

Transport
 10,712
 2,159
 16,519
 2,233
 5,490
 1,098

Office
 7,855
 1,807
 5,642
 1,718
 7,141
 5,358

Media
 527
 116
 677
 169
 0
 0

Treatment
 13,571§
 2,986§
 3,409
 369
 2,029
 350

Laboratory
 6,577§
 1,209§
 322
 79
 513
 100

Capital
 4,318
 826
 6,301
 2,032
 5,561
 1,540








Primaryhealth
 Personnel
 1,839
 478
 2,752
 728
 1,974,579
 191,584
care center
 Transport
 627
 166
 274
 53
 42,804
 42,043

Office
 993
 186
 270
 49
 359,817
 42,988

Media
 233
 42
 14
 3
 36,292
 35,738

Treatment
 591§
 131§
 1632
 182
 756,914
 123,547

Laboratory
 288§
 53§
 0
 0
 345,554
 56,878

Capital
 624
 184
 909
 167
 119,475
 16,204

§ In Burkina Faso, laboratory and treatment costs were calculated using the average annual per capita costs of laboratory and treatment for Eritrea and Mali

¶ In Eritrea, data were for the central Ministry level (primary health care center was not included in the study).

Somda et al. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2009 7:1   doi:10.1186/1478-7547-7-1

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