A Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Informing Policies on Zika Virus Control.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As Zika virus continues to spread, decisions regarding resource allocations to control the outbreak underscore the need for a tool to weigh policies according to their cost and the health burden they could avert. For example, to combat the current Zika outbreak the US President requested the allocation of $1.8 billion from Congress in February 2016.

Methodology/principal findings

Illustrated through an interactive tool, we evaluated how the number of Zika cases averted, the period during pregnancy in which Zika infection poses a risk of microcephaly, and probabilities of microcephaly and Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) impact the cost at which an intervention is cost-effective. From Northeast Brazilian microcephaly incidence data, we estimated the probability of mic

SUBMITTER: Alfaro-Murillo JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4874682 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature