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DataWeb Portal 2024CEA Registry
The CEA Registry is a comprehensive database containing detailed information on more than 14,500 standardized …
The CEA Registry is a comprehensive database containing detailed information on more than 14,500 standardized cost-effectiveness ratios and more than 21,900 utility weights published in over 5,600 peer-reviewed cost-utility analyses. It details studies published from 1976 through 2016 and is regularly updated. These studies estimate health benefits, in terms of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), and incremental costs for a wide range of health and medical interventions. Open access is provided for basic search functions against the…
Health Outcomes | Global | Health Systems | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Technology Assessment | Infectious Diseases | Maternal/Reproductive Health | Child/Nutrition | Chronic Disease/Risk | Mental Health | Injuries/Accidents | Health/Medicine -
OrganizationWeb Portal 2024Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN)
The Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN) aims to increase the availability, understanding, and use of …
The Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN) aims to increase the availability, understanding, and use of immunization delivery cost information. They are building country capacity around the generation of cost information to solve program and policy challenges and working with countries to improve interpretation and translation of cost information for country decision-making processes and routine planning and budgeting. The ICAN is comprised of four-member countries (India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Vietnam) with country teams that include health…
Costing Methods | Global | Health Systems | Infectious Diseases | Child/Nutrition | Business/Industry | Economics/Finance | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology -
ReviewPublication 2016Cost-Effectiveness Studies Reporting Cost-per-DALY Averted
This is a systematic review of cost-effectiveness studies reporting cost-per-DALY averted from 2000 through 2015 …
This is a systematic review of cost-effectiveness studies reporting cost-per-DALY averted from 2000 through 2015 conducted using the Global Health Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (GHCEA) Registry. Authors summarized descriptive characteristics on study methodology. They analyzed a) the types of costs included, b) study quality and c) the correlation between diseases researched and the burden of disease in different world regions. 479 cost-per-DALY averted studies were published from 2000 through 2015, with studies from Sub-Saharan Africa representing the largest portion…
Health Outcomes | Global | Health Systems | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Health/Medicine -
ArticlePublication 2016Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Key Messages from DCP3
As part of the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition, the World Bank has published a …
As part of the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition, the World Bank has published a volume on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health that identifies essential cost-effective health interventions that can be scaled-up now to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths, and stillbirths. This article summarizes the key findings and estimates the impact and cost of expanded implementation of these interventions. Scaling up all preventive and therapeutic health interventions in these integrated packages from current…
Costing Methods | Global | Health Systems | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Maternal/Reproductive Health | Child/Nutrition | Health/Medicine -
ReviewPublication 2016Cochrane Review: Strategies to Improve the Implementation of Obesity Prevention
Despite the existence of effective interventions and best-practice guideline recommendations for childcare services to implement …
Despite the existence of effective interventions and best-practice guideline recommendations for childcare services to implement policies, practices, and programs to promote child healthy eating, physical activity, and prevent unhealthy weight gain, many services fail to do so. The primary aim of the review was to examine the effectiveness of strategies aimed to improve the implementation of policies, practices, or programs by childcare services that promote child healthy eating, physical activity, and/or obesity prevention. The secondary…
Evidence Synthesis | Global | Health Systems | Child/Nutrition | Chronic Disease/Risk | Policy/Regulation | Clinical Care | Culture/Society | Education/Labor | Health/Medicine -
ArticlePublication 2016Costs and Benefits of Integrated RMNCH
This chapter assesses the costs and benefits of delivering a set of integrated reproductive, maternal, …
This chapter assesses the costs and benefits of delivering a set of integrated reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in countries with high child and maternal mortality to demonstrate that very high returns can be achieved through this investment and to underscore the importance of an accurate assessment of those returns. This includes the full range of costs involved in delivering integrated care and the full range of benefits that flow from the interventions.…
Costing Methods | Global | Health Systems | Priority Setting/Ethics | Maternal/Reproductive Health | Child/Nutrition | Economics/Finance | Health/Medicine -
Lesson/ModuleWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2016Educational Module: Vaccines
This module engages students in learning about association and causation in the context of vaccines, …
This module engages students in learning about association and causation in the context of vaccines, their side effects, and legal issues that could arise as a result of side effects associated with vaccinations. The module employs five case studies. In the first two case studies, a child receives a vaccination, and students must determine whether an event (vaccination) causes a side effect in the child. In the third case study, a child who has not…
Health Outcomes | Global | Health Systems | Risk Analysis | Technology Assessment | Infectious Diseases | Government/Law | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | North America | College | Graduate | Doctoral | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Decision Making/Leadership | Quantitative Literacy -
ArticlePublication 2016Essential Package of Cancer Control: Costs, Affordability, and Feasibility of an Essential Package of Cancer Control Interventions in LMIC Countries
Investments in cancer control-prevention, detection, diagnosis, surgery, palliative care-are needed in low-income and particularly in …
Investments in cancer control-prevention, detection, diagnosis, surgery, palliative care-are needed in low-income and particularly in middle-income countries, where most of the world's cancer deaths occur without treatment or palliation. To help countries expand locally appropriate services, Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition developed an essential package of potentially cost-effective measures for countries to consider and adapt. Interventions included in the package are: prevention of tobacco-related cancer and virus-related liver and cervical cancers; diagnosis and treatment of…
Costing Methods | Global | Health Systems | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Chronic Disease/Risk | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology -
ReportPublication 2016Cost-Effectiveness of Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders
This report chapter reviews the available cost-effectiveness evidence for the different levels and underpinning strategies of …
This report chapter reviews the available cost-effectiveness evidence for the different levels and underpinning strategies of the mental health care system, with a focus on information generated in or for lower and middle income countries. First, the chapter reviews the economic evidence for mental health prevention and protection at the population and community levels of the health and welfare system, including legislative, regulatory, and informational measures at the public policy level (population platform), as well as…
Evidence Synthesis | Global | Health Systems | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Chronic Disease/Risk | Health/Medicine