Country Contextualization of Cost-Effectiveness Studies
2019
This article, published in BMJ Global Health, provides experiences of country contextualization of WHO-CHOICE methods and models to a country level. Results from three contextualized cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) are presented, and the authors discuss how this evidence can inform priority setting in Ethiopia. This method of contextualized CEAs requires inclusion of national analysts and use of country-specific inputs for either costs, epidemiology, demography, baseline coverage or effects. Rank ordering of interventions by incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs), together with presentations of expected budgetary impact and net health benefits, is a clear and policy-friendly illustration of possible efficient stepwise pathways towards universal health coverage (UHC).
Country Contextualization of Cost-Effectiveness Studies
Source:
Johansson KA, Tolla MT, Memirie ST, Miljeteig I, Habtemariam KF, Woldemariam AT, Verguet S, Norheim OF. Country Contextualisation of Cost-Effectiveness Studies: Lessons from Ethiopia. BMJ Global Health 2019; 4 (6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001320