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ArticleApplied health economics and health policy2017

Geographic Resource Allocation Based on Cost Effectiveness: An Application to Malaria Policy.

Tom L Drake, Yoel Lubell, Shwe Sin Kyaw, Angela Devine, Myat Phone Kyaw, Nicholas P J Day, Frank M Smithuis, Lisa J White

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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. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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8 authors.

Tom L DrakeMyanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Yangon, Myanmar. tom.d@tropmedres.ac.
Yoel LubellNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Shwe Sin KyawMyanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Yangon, Myanmar.
Angela DevineMahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Myat Phone KyawDepartment of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Yangon, Myanmar.
Nicholas P J DayNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Frank M SmithuisMyanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Yangon, Myanmar.
Lisa J WhiteNuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthcare services are often provided to a country as a whole, though in many cases the available resources can be more effectively targeted to specific geographically defined populations. In the case of malaria, risk is highly geographically heterogeneous, and many interventions, such as insecticide-treated bed nets and malaria community health workers, can be targeted to populations in a way that maximises impact for the resources available. This paper describes a framework for geographically targeted budget allocation based on the principles of cost-effectiveness analysis and applied to priority setting in malaria control and elimination. The approach can be used with any underlying model able to estimate intervention costs and effects given relevant local data. Efficient geographic targeting of core malaria interventions could significantly increase the impact of the resources available, accelerating progress towards elimination. These methods may also be applicable to priority setting in other disease areas.

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Cost-Benefit AnalysisDisease EradicationGeographyHealth PolicyHumansMalariaResource Allocation

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PMID28185133
PMCPMC5427090

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