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ArticleWellcome open research2020

Integrating economic and health evidence to inform Covid-19 policy in low- and middle- income countries.

Anna Vassall, Sedona Sweeney, Edwine Barasa, Shankar Prinja, Marcus R Keogh-Brown, Henning Tarp Jensen, Richard Smith, Rob Baltussen, Rosalind M Eggo, Mark Jit

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Article in Wellcome open research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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10 authors.

Anna VassallCentre for Health Economics in London, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2911-1375
Sedona SweeneyCentre for Health Economics in London, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4233-9080
Edwine BarasaHealth Economics Research Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya and Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Shankar PrinjaDepartment of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7719-6986
Marcus R Keogh-BrownCentre for Health Economics in London, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7556-0016
Henning Tarp JensenCentre for Health Economics in London, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4526-458X
Richard SmithCollege of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Rob BaltussenRadboud University Medical Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Rosalind M EggoCentre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Disease, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Mark JitCentre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Disease, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

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Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Covid-19 requires policy makers to consider evidence on both population health and economic welfare. Over the last two decades, the field of health economics has developed a range of analytical approaches and contributed to the institutionalisation of processes to employ economic evidence in health policy. We present a discussion outlining how these approaches and processes need to be applied more widely to inform Covid-19 policy; highlighting where they may need to be adapted conceptually and methodologically, and providing examples of work to date. We focus on the evidential and policy needs of low- and middle-income countries; where there is an urgent need for evidence to navigate the policy trade-offs between health and economic well-being posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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cost-effectivenessCovidhealth economics

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PMID36081645
PMCPMC9433912.2

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