ArticleInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2018
Preventing deaths and injuries from house fires: a cost-benefit analysis of a community-based smoke alarm installation programme.
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- Interventions for Preventing Residential Fires in Vulnerable Neighbourhoods and Indigenous Communities: A Systematic Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic review of unintentional injury prevention economic evaluations 2010-2019 and comparison to 1998-2009.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2020Pooled it
- Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review.Journal of injury & violence research · 2019Pooled it
- Cost-benefit analysis of universal pool fencing for Texas households with young children.Injury epidemiology · 2026Article
- Health service utilisation cost associated with residential fire incidents in New South Wales, Australia.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- A Call to Action: Addressing Socioeconomic Disparities in Childhood Unintentional Injury Risk.Pediatrics · 2024Article
- Measuring the benefits of occupational safety and health research with economic metrics: Insights from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.American journal of industrial medicine · 2022Article
- Community/Public Health Nurses' Awareness of Residential High-Rise Fire Safety issues.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
backgroundOperation Installation (OI), a community-based smoke alarm installation programme in Dallas, Texas, targets houses in high-risk urban census tracts. Residents of houses that received OI installation (or programme houses) had 68% fewer medically treated house fire injuries (non-fatal and fatal) compared with residents of non-programme houses over an average of 5.2 years of follow-up during an effectiveness evaluation conducted from 2001 to 2011.
objectiveTo estimate the cost-benefit of OI.
methodsA mathematical model incorporated programme cost and effectiveness data as directly observed in OI. The estimated cost per smoke alarm installed was based on a retrospective analysis of OI expenditures from administrative records, 2006-2011. Injury incidence assumptions for a population that had the OI programme compared with the same population without the OI programme was based on the previous OI effectiveness study, 2001-2011. Unit costs for medical care and lost productivity associated with fire injuries were from a national public database.
resultsFrom a combined payers' perspective limited to direct programme and medical costs, the estimated incremental cost per fire injury averted through the OI installation programme was $128,800 (2013 US$). When a conservative estimate of lost productivity among victims was included, the incremental cost per fire injury averted was negative, suggesting long-term cost savings from the programme. The OI programme from 2001 to 2011 resulted in an estimated net savings of $3.8 million, or a $3.21 return on investment for every dollar spent on the programme using a societal cost perspective.
conclusionsCommunity smoke alarm installation programmes could be cost-beneficial in high-fire-risk neighbourhoods.
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