Review: CEA for Maternal, Newborn, Child Health
2016
This chapter summarizes the findings of a systematic search of the cost-effectiveness literature on interventions to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. Interventions for newborn health, treatment of febrile illness, immunization against preventable diseases, and micronutrient interventions remain among the most cost-effective and affordable.
Other studies explore how to provide existing interventions using new platforms to increase outreach or decrease cost per person covered, or both. Interventions provided in the community may achieve both purposes to differing extents. Task-shifting, such as training lay health workers to provide vaccines, may decrease costs, and training traditional birth attendants in skills for safer deliveries may increase coverage.
This chapter is from Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health, the second volume in the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) series. The volume focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition.
Other chapters related to economics and financing include:
- Returns on Investment in the Continuum of Care for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
- The Benefits of a Universal Home-Based Neonatal Care Package in Rural India: An Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Health Gains and Financial Risk Protection Afforded by Treatment and Prevention of Diarrhea and Pneumonia in Ethiopia: An Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
DCP3 endeavors to inform program design and resource allocation at the global and country levels by providing a comprehensive review of the effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of priority health interventions.
Review: CEA for Maternal, Newborn, Child Health
Source:
Horton S, Levin C. Chapter 17: Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. In: Black R, Temmerman M, Laxminarayan R et al, eds. Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition. The World Bank 2016; 2. http://dcp-3.org/chapter/1817/cost-effectiveness-interventions-reproductive-maternal-neonatal-and-child-health