What’s the price of an intervention to enhance well being? This looks as if a easy query, simply add up the prices. Nevertheless, some prices are variable and a few are mounted. Thus, including an additional individual to an intervention could not equal to the typical price as mounted prices could not enhance. Moreover, there could also be (dis)economies of scale or scope which can (enhance) lower price for the marginal affected person.
A paper by d’Elbée et al. (2023) goals to create a construction for higher capturing price of well being interventions, significantly in low- and middle-income nations (LMIC). Key definitions to contemplate are:
- Inputs. hospital mattress, per subject officer, lab reagent, diagnostic check
- Outputs: Measure both per service (e.g., dose of vaccine administered, hospital go to, medical session, screening or diagnostic check) or well being intervention (e.g., major well being care: well being promotion, sanitation and setting well being, maternal and baby well being and household planning, vitamin, immunization and communicable ailments management)
- Outcomes: per beneficiary or per goal particular person.
- Setting. Per administrative construction (e.g., village, block, well being heart)
The paper has a really good mathematical development of measure prices, with key concerns. Related figures are proven under.
The total paper is right here.