Packaging health services when resources are limited: the example of a cervical cancer screening visit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing evidence supporting the value of screening women for cervical cancer once in their lifetime, coupled with mounting interest in scaling up successful screening demonstration projects, present challenges to public health decision makers seeking to take full advantage of the single-visit opportunity to provide additional services. We present an analytic framework for packaging multiple interventions during a single point of contact, explicitly taking into account a budget and scarce human resources, constraints acknowledged as significant obstacles for provision of health services in poor countries.

Methods and findings

We developed a binary integer programming (IP) model capable of identifying an optimal package of health services to be provided during a

SUBMITTER: Kim JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1635742 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature