The amount and value of work time of community medicine distributors in community case management of malaria among children under five years in the Ejisu-Juaben District of Ghana

Table 4 Estimated opportunity cost of CMDs’ time

Time/Cost	Mean total time (minutes)		Weekly Value of work time by valuation method
Time cost			National minimum wage*	Village labourer wage**	Reported monthly Income***	how much extra (premium) ****
Minutes/child	1.8x24	43	0.7	1.22	0.88	3.15
Minutes/BCC session	2.5x12.1	30	0.5	0.86	0.63	2.25
Minutes on follow up/child	2.6x1.7	102	1.7	2.98	1.53	7.65
^a Monthly opportunity cost of time	20 working hours -		4.8 (5.3)	9.6(10.67)	14.64 (16.27)	21.60 (23.74)

^aEstimated based on 4.8 working hours/day and 5 working days per week*; As per the 2007 Ghana national minimum wage of (1.6/8 hours = 0.20]; ** As per an estimated village labourer wage of (3.5/8 hours = 0.4). *** As per reported income, 1.96/8 = 0.25 **** As per how much extra (premium) they would pay due to child’s sickness7.5/8 = 0.91; US Dollars in parenthesis. (1 US$ = GH¢ 0.90).

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