Assessing Interventions That Prevent Multiple Infectious Diseases: Simple Methods for Multidisease Modeling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) only consider outcomes for a single disease when comparing interventions that prevent or treat 1 disease (e.g., vaccination) to interventions that prevent or treat multiple diseases (e.g., vector control to prevent mosquito-borne diseases). An intervention targeted to a single disease may be preferred to a broader intervention in a single-disease model, but this conclusion might change if outcomes from the additional diseases were included. However, multidisease models are often complex and difficult to construct.

Methods

We present conditions for when multiple diseases should be considered in such a CEA. We propose methods for estimating health outcomes and costs associated with control of additional diseases using parallel

SUBMITTER: Claypool AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8831671 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature