Abstract
A variant of human capital (or net output) analytical framework was
applied to monetarily value DALYs lost from 166 diseases and injuries.
The monetary value of each of the 166 diseases (or injuries) was
obtained through multiplication of the net 2019 GDP per capita for Kenya
by the number of DALYs lost from each specific cause. Where net GDP per
capita was calculated by subtracting current health expenditure from the
GDP per capita.
The DALYs data for the 166 causes were from IHME (Global Burden of
Disease Collaborative Network, 2018), GDP per capita data from the
International Monetary Fund world economic outlook database
(International Monetary Fund, 2019), and the current health expenditure
per person data from the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database (World
Health Organization, 2019b). A model consisting of fourteen equations
was calculated with Excel Software developed by Microsoft (New York).