Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Michigan's School-Wide Sexually Transmitted Disease Screening Program in Four Detroit High Schools.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with St. John Providence Health System, initiated voluntary school-wide sexually transmitted disease (STD) screenings in four Detroit public high schools. We sought to assess the cost-effectiveness of the STD screening program from 2010 to 2015, with a focus on chlamydia.

Methods

The costs and effectiveness of the school-based screening were compared with those of a "no school screening" scenario using a healthcare system perspective. A decision tree model was constructed to project cases of chlamydia, epididymitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in each of the two scenarios among students tested positive and their partners. Health effects were measured as cases of PID prevented, and qualit

SUBMITTER: Wang LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9281505 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature