Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies to combat malaria in developing countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the cost effectiveness of selected malaria control interventions in the context of reaching the millennium development goals for malaria.

Design

Generalised cost effectiveness analysis.

Data sources

Efficacy data came from the literature and authors' calculations supported by expert opinion. Quantities for resource inputs came from the literature and from expert opinion; prices came from the WHO-CHOICE database.

Methods

Costs were assessed in year 2000 international dollars, and effects were assessed as disability adjusted life years averted by a 10 year implementation programme. Analysis was restricted to sub-Saharan regions where the most deadly form of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, is most prevalent. The impact on population health f

SUBMITTER: Morel CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1298848 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature