Unfortunately, the general lack of impact and outcome evaluations of programs, policies and interventions has hindered our understanding of what works, and what might work in different contexts, for the design and implementation of cost-effective interventions (see Baylis et al. 2016).
They found that the traffic pollution related risks to children were "significant," and recommended the implementation of cost-effective interventions to reduce the problem.
As approximately 19% of these deaths are due to birth asphyxia [ 1], identifying solutions to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving child mortality by 2015 by means of a wide-scale implementation of cost-effective interventions has become urgent [ 17].
Implementation of all cost effective interventions would cost around $Int19 per capita in sub-Saharan Africa.
This information, in addition, may be useful for the implementation of cost-effective preventive interventions.
To attain the MDG 4 target, greater emphasis must be placed on wide-scale implementation of proven, cost-effective interventions.
Universal and equitable implementation of cost-effective child survival interventions building on local epidemiology through outreach, family-community care, and facility-based clinical care has been proposed for achieving the reduction of under-five mortality rates by two thirds to year 2015 [ 3- 5].
Health psychology, and more specifically, behaviour change science, can substantially reduce these costs through the development and implementation of (cost- effective health behaviour cost- effectivetions.
The implementation of cost-effective, portable, and easy-to-use interventions has tremendous potential for sustainably reducing neonatal mortality and long-term improvements in population health.
We suggest not only that cost-effective interventions be selected correctly from the value for money guidance, but also that HTA be applied to at least some aspects of a proposal before implementation.
ACSD expands coverage of proven cost-effective interventions.
