Modelling cost-effectiveness of syphilis detection strategies in prisoners: exploratory exercise in a Chilean male prison.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Syphilis, together with other sexually transmitted infections, remains a global public health problem that is far from controlled. People deprived of liberty are a vulnerable population. Control activities in prisons rely mostly on passive case detection, despite the existence of affordable alternatives that would allow switching to active case-finding strategies. Our objective was to develop a mathematical modelling framework for cost-effectiveness evaluation, from a health system perspective, of different approaches using rapid tests for the detection of syphilis in inmates' populations and to explore the results based on a Chilean male prison population.

Methods

A compartmental model was developed to characterize the transmission dynamics of syphilis inside a p

SUBMITTER: Castillo-Laborde C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7825166 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature