Estimating the cost-savings associated with bundling maternal and child health interventions: a proposed methodology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a pressing need to include cost data in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). This paper proposes a method that combines data from both the WHO CHOosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective (CHOICE) database and the OneHealth Tool (OHT) to develop unit costs for delivering child and maternal health services, both alone and bundled.

Methods

First, a translog cost function is estimated to calculate factor shares of personnel, consumables, other direct (variable or recurrent costs excluding personnel and consumables) and indirect (capital or investment) costs. Primary source facility level data from Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe are utilized, with separate analyses for hospitals and health centres. Second, the resulting other-direct and i

SUBMITTER: Adesina A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3847650 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature