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ArticlePublication 2015Expansion of Surgical Access in Rural Ethiopia: Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
This article, published in Health Policy and Planning, utilizes an extended cost effectiveness analysis (ECEA) …
This article, published in Health Policy and Planning, utilizes an extended cost effectiveness analysis (ECEA) to examine how policies to expand access to surgery in rural Ethiopia would impact health, impoverishment, and equity. The study finds that health benefits, financial risk protection, and equity appear to be in tension in the expansion of access to surgical care. Health benefits from each of the examined policies accrue primarily among the poor, but without travel vouchers, many…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Economics/Finance | Sub-Saharan Africa | Health Systems | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Health/Medicine -
ArticlePublication 2013Public Finance of Rotavirus Vaccination in India and Ethiopia: Extended CEA
This study uses extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA) to evaluate a hypothetical publicly financed program for …
This study uses extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA) to evaluate a hypothetical publicly financed program for rotavirus vaccination in India and Ethiopia. The authors measured program impact on: (1) averted rotavirus deaths; (2) reduction in household expenditures; (3) financial risk protection; and (4) distributional consequences across the country’s wealth strata. In India and Ethiopia, the program was predicted to decrease rotavirus deaths substantially, and effectively provide financial risk protection among the poor, while also reducing household…
Priority Setting/Ethics | Economics/Finance | Sub-Saharan Africa | Infectious Diseases | Health Outcomes | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Child/Nutrition | Social Determinants | Culture/Society | Health/Medicine | Asia & Pacific