Preventing deaths and injuries from house fires: a cost-benefit analysis of a community-based smoke alarm installation programme.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Operation Installation (OI), a community-based smoke alarm installation programme in Dallas, Texas, targets houses in high-risk urban census tracts. Residents of houses that received OI installation (or programme houses) had 68% fewer medically treated house fire injuries (non-fatal and fatal) compared with residents of non-programme houses over an average of 5.2 years of follow-up during an effectiveness evaluation conducted from 2001 to 2011.

Objective

To estimate the cost-benefit of OI.

Methods

A mathematical model incorporated programme cost and effectiveness data as directly observed in OI. The estimated cost per smoke alarm installed was based on a retrospective analysis of OI expenditures from administrative records, 2006-2011. Injury incidence assum

SUBMITTER: Yellman MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5550354 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature