Treating childhood pneumonia in hard-to-reach areas: a model-based comparison of mobile clinics and community-based care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Where hard-to-access populations (such as those living in insecure areas) lack access to basic health services, relief agencies, donors, and ministries of health face a dilemma in selecting the most effective intervention strategy. This paper uses a decision mathematical model to estimate the relative effectiveness of two alternative strategies, mobile clinics and fixed community-based health services, for antibiotic treatment of childhood pneumonia, the world's leading cause of child mortality.

Methods

A "Markov cycle tree" cohort model was developed in Excel with Visual Basic to compare the number of deaths from pneumonia in children aged 1 to 59 months expected under three scenarios: 1) No curative services available, 2) Curative services provided by a highly-s

SUBMITTER: Pitt C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3276416 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature