Estimating the obstetric costs of female genital mutilation in six African countries
Article - Bulletin of the World Health Organization
A study to estimate the economic costs of FGM was carried out in 2008. The study used the findings from the WHO study on the association between the different types of FGM and obstetric outcome and examined three issues: (1) estimating the medical costs associated with FGM; (2) building a model to estimate the economic costs to the communities due to FGM, using a DALY burden of disease methodology; and (3) estimating the cost-effectiveness of a hypothetical intervention that lowers the incidence of FGM by 10%.
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Female genital mutilation and obstetric outcome: WHO collaborative prospective study in six African countries
2006, 7 pages. Also available in Arabic and French.