From: Productivity costs from a dengue episode in Asia: a systematic literature review
Key research needs | |
More data quantifying the productivity losses over the full course of the dengue episode. | |
More data quantifying the productivity losses associated with presenteeism and lost unpaid work. | |
More data quantifying the productivity losses associated with post-acute consequences. | |
Further investigation and data describing patents’ informal caregivers and their productivity losses. | |
More data on the health and economic burden of dengue from India and China. | |
Recommendations for future studies | |
Clearly state the losses and costs associated with lost paid work and unpaid work. | |
Clearly report the period of disease that accounted for the productive time lost (i.e. pre-hospitalization, hospitalization and post-hospitalization). | |
Clearly state and justify the wage source(s) used to value the productivity costs. | |
Report the average number of informal caregivers per dengue patient and how their time was valued. | |
Clearly state and justify how children’s productivity losses are quantified and valued monetarily. |