Impact of Delaying Effective and Cost-Effective Policy Decisions: An Example From Cervical Cancer Prevention in Norway.

ABSTRACT: Introduction. Delayed implementation of evidence-driven interventions has consequences that can be formally evaluated. In Norway, programs to prevent cervical cancer (CC)-screening and treatment of precancerous lesions and prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection-have been implemented, but each encountered delays in policy implementation. To examine the effect of these delays, we project the outcomes that would have been achieved with timely implementation of two policy changes compared with the de facto delays in implementation (in Norway). Methods. We used a multimodeling approach that combined HPV transmission and cervical carcinogenesis to estimate the health outcomes and timeline for CC elimination associated with the implementation of two CC

SUBMITTER: Portnoy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8744166 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature