Intervention strategies to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in Mexico: cost effectiveness analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To inform decision making regarding intervention strategies against non-communicable diseases in Mexico, in the context of health reform.

Design

Cost effectiveness analysis based on epidemiological modelling.

Interventions

101 intervention strategies relating to nine major clusters of non-communicable disease: depression, heavy alcohol use, tobacco use, cataracts, breast cancer, cervical cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.

Data sources

Mexican data sources were used for most key input parameters, including administrative registries; disease burden and population estimates; household surveys; and drug price databases. These sources were supplemented as needed with estimates for Mexico from the WHO-CHOICE

SUBMITTER: Salomon JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3292518 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature