Smoke alarm giveaway and installation programs: an economic evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The burden of residential fire injury and death is substantial. Targeted smoke alarm giveaway and installation programs are popular interventions used to reduce residential fire mortality and morbidity.

Purpose

To evaluate the cost effectiveness and cost benefit of implementing a giveaway or installation program in a small hypothetic community with a high risk of fire death and injury through a decision-analysis model.

Methods

Model inputs included program costs; program effectiveness (life-years and quality-adjusted life-years saved); and monetized program benefits (medical cost, productivity, property loss and quality-of-life losses averted) and were identified through structured reviews of existing literature (done in 2011) and supplemented by expert opi

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4624218 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature