Some things to keep in mind when weighing your options: Does this plan meet my needs, and if so, is it cost effective?
This problem is the one we think we can solve with a way to store massive amounts of electrical energy, if we can make it cost effective and safe.
Currently, conflicting suggestions on the timing of regular deworming do exist, with the World Health Organization recommending regular annual de-worming in areas where the prevalence of schistosomiasis is ≥ 50% and the prevalence of STHs ≥ 20%, whilst the best practice paper on deworming considers it cost effective if annual deworming is done when the prevalence of STHs is ≥ 40% [ 38, 41].
Health policy and economic decisions makers in each country will be more likely to accept such large preventive projects not only if it the project is proven to save lifes and reduce morbidity, but also if it cost-effective (ie: having a low or even negative cost-per DALYs).
A strategy was considered cost-effective if it cost less than $285,000 to prevent one case of congenital syphilis (the estimated long-term care cost).Under our assumptions, universal third-trimester rescreening would cost an additional $419,842 for each case of congenital syphilis prevented and $3,621,144 and $6,052,534, respectively, for each fetal and neonatal death prevented.
For example, in Priolo a remedial intervention with low effectiveness (preventing only 20% of health outcomes) is unlikely to be cost effective if it costs more than €700 million.
Ask if something is cost effective in the long run.
The WHO considers a medical intervention to be "not cost-effective" if it costs more than three times a nation's per capita GDP per year of life saved.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers a medical intervention to be "not cost-effective" if it costs more than three times a nation's per capita GDP per year of life saved.
Based on the model predictions, treatment of MDR-TB in either model of care appeared highly cost-effective in all 14 WHO subregions considered, according to the WHO threshold that a health care intervention is highly cost-effective if it costs less than the annual GDP per capita per DALY averted [38].
Care of stroke patients costs considerably more in specialized stroke units (SU) compared to care in general medical wards (GMW) but the technology may be cost effective if it leads to significantly improved outcomes.
