Modelling the cost of community interventions to reduce child mortality in South Africa using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the costs and impact on reducing child mortality of scaling up interventions that can be delivered by community health workers at community level from a provider's perspective.

Setting

In this study, we used the Lives Saved Tool (LiST), a module in the spectrum software. Within the spectrum software, LiST interacts with other modules, the AIDS Impact Module, Family Planning Module and Demography Projections Module (Dem Proj), to model the impact of more than 60 interventions that affect cause-specific mortality.

Participants

DemProj Based on National South African Data.

Interventions

A total of nine interventions namely, breastfeeding promotion, complementary feeding, vitamin supplementation, hand washing with soap, hygienic disposal of ch

SUBMITTER: Nkonki LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577872 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature