Public Health Interventions with Harms and Benefits: A Graphical Framework for Evaluating Tradeoffs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluations of public health interventions typically report benefits and harms aggregated over the population. However, benefits and harms are not always evenly distributed. Examining disaggregated outcomes enables decision makers to consider health benefits and harms accruing to both intended intervention recipients and others in the population.

Methods

We provide a graphical framework for categorizing and comparing public health interventions that examines the distribution of benefit and harm between and within population subgroups for a single intervention and compares distributions of harm and benefit for multiple interventions. We demonstrate the framework through a case study of a hypothetical increase in the price of meat (5%, 10%, 25%, or 50%) that, via el

SUBMITTER: Pitt AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8056742 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature