Generalised cost-effectiveness analysis of 159 health interventions for the Ethiopian essential health service package.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cost effectiveness was a criterion used to revise Ethiopia's essential health service package (EHSP) in 2019. However, there are few cost-effectiveness studies from Ethiopia or directly transferable evidence from other low-income countries to inform a comprehensive revision of the Ethiopian EHSP. Therefore, this paper reports average cost-effectiveness ratios (ACERs) of 159 health interventions used in the revision of Ethiopia's EHSP.

Methods

In this study, we estimate ACERs for 77 interventions on reproductive maternal neonatal and child health (RMNCH), infectious diseases and water sanitation and hygiene as well as for 82 interventions on non-communicable diseases. We used the standardised World Health Organization (WHO) CHOosing Interventions that are cost effe

SUBMITTER: Eregata GT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7787224 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature