The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) as a model for diarrhea mortality reduction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diarrhea is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five years of age. The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) is a model used to calculate deaths averted or lives saved by past interventions and for the purposes of program planning when costly and time consuming impact studies are not possible.

Discussion

LiST models the relationship between coverage of interventions and outputs, such as stunting, diarrhea incidence and diarrhea mortality. Each intervention directly prevents a proportion of diarrhea deaths such that the effect size of the intervention is multiplied by coverage to calculate lives saved. That is, the maximum effect size could be achieved at 100% coverage, but at 50% coverage only 50% of possible deaths are prevented. Diarrhea mortality

SUBMITTER: Fischer Walker CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4234397 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature