by Dr Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies
published 22 August 2014
Key messages from a systematic review:
•Cost-effective strategies are needed to improve the use and provision of maternal and newborn health care, and increase the coverage of maternal and newborn health interventions.
•Demand and supply-side strategies can be cost-effective, and there is strong evidence in certain contexts.
•Questions remain about the extent to which both costs and effects vary by implementation, context and scale.
•Evidence is limited by the number of studies on different types of demand and supply strategies and the lack of high quality studies using comparable cost-effectiveness measures.
•More attention should be given to the design and reporting of cost-effectiveness studies.
Mangham-Jefferies, L; (2014) What strategies are cost-effective in improving health care for women and their newborns? London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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