ArticleApplied health economics and health policy2017
Malaria and Economic Evaluation Methods: Challenges and Opportunities.
Article in Applied health economics and health policy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- A stakeholder workshop about modelled maps of key malaria indicator survey indicators in Madagascar.Malaria journal · 2019Article
- Cost-effectiveness of a combined intervention of long lasting insecticidal nets and indoor residual spraying compared with each intervention alone for malaria prevention in Ethiopia.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2018Article
- Geographic Resource Allocation Based on Cost Effectiveness: An Application to Malaria Policy.Applied health economics and health policy · 2017Article
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Abstract
There is a growing evidence base on the cost effectiveness of malaria interventions. However, certain characteristics of malaria decision problems present a challenge to the application of healthcare economic evaluation methods. This paper identifies five such challenges. The complexities of (i) declining incidence and cost effectiveness in the context of an elimination campaign; (ii) international aid and its effect on resource constraints; and (iii) supranational priority setting, all affect how health economists might use a cost-effectiveness threshold. Consensus and guidance on how to determine and interpret cost-effectiveness thresholds in the context of internationally financed elimination campaigns is greatly needed. (iv) Malaria interventions are often complimentary and evaluations may need to construct intervention bundles to represent relevant policy positions as sets of mutually exclusive alternatives. (v) Geographic targeting is a key aspect of malaria policy making that is only beginning to be addressed in economic evaluations. An approach to budget-based geographic resource allocation is described in an accompanying paper in this issue and addresses some of these methodological challenges.
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