Table 5. The components of public and private costs of rabies control measures for different stakeholders.
Stakeholders | Components | |
1. Mass vaccination | ||
2. Culling of roaming dogs | ||
1. Agricultural Department | 3. Dog-bite investigation | |
4. Diagnostic testing of suspected rabid dogs | ||
Public costs | 5. Trace back investigation of human contacts | |
6. Quarantine | ||
2. Public Health Department | 1. Human rabies vaccines | |
2. Immunoglobulin | ||
3. Syringe and needles | ||
3. Dog owners | 1. The lost value of dogs due culling control measure | |
2. Opportunity cost for the owner of vaccinated dogs | ||
Private costs | 3. Opportunity cost for the dog owners for their time investment to cull dogs | |
4. Dog-bite patients | 1. Opportunity cost for: | |
• Patients | ||
• Caretakers | ||
2. Transportation of patients and caretakers |