Notwithstanding important caveats about the heterogeneity of the studies and their methodological limitations, findings reinforce the hypothesis that CHWs may represent, in some settings, a cost-effective approach for the delivery of essential health services.
Base case assumptions with constant test parameters but cost difference between hospital and community settings yielded a cost difference of £25 per quality weighted detected child month (QCM): To detect one hearing impaired child one month earlier produced costs of £268 in hospital settings and of £243 in community settings.
Since the feasibility and appropriateness of ACF depend largely on local settings, a careful cost assessment is crucial for rational policy development.
The Healthy Living Partnership to Prevent Diabetes study (HELP PD) was designed to translate the DPP approach for use in community settings as a cost-effective intervention led by Community Health Workers (CHW's) and administered through a Diabetes Care Center (DCC).
These results collectively show promise for the semi-automated detection of slope disturbances (i.e., elongate ALDs) in permafrost settings and a cost-effective method to delineate areas for more detailed hazard assessment methods.
This intervention is designed to be easily implemented in early childhood settings in a cost-effective manner (e.g., it does not require the purchase of special materials or extended professional development).
We believe such repurposing may offer versatile strategies for providing molecular diagnostic capabilities to resource-limited settings in a cost-effective manner for a diverse spectrum of diseases.
Research has also demonstrated that primary prevention programs can be effectively implemented in community settings in a cost-effective manner (120– 120).
The three-level testing approach developed by the PQM Program can offer regulators in limited resource settings with a "cost-effective high-throughput methodology" for quality monitoring of drugs that produces valid and reliable results.
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