New BMC Public Health LiST Supplement Now Online New LiST Interactive Training Tool Now Online Supported by another grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a tool for maternal and child health program planning has been developed. This software tool, Lives Saved Tool (LiST) (formerly IMPACT), is used to estimate the impact (in lives saved) and cost of scaling up various interventions. The tool is designed so that a user can load in country-specific information on coverage of over 40 interventions and the causes of deaths by age for the country, along with other relevant background information about the particular country, such as rate of stunting, exposure to P. falciparum malaria, etc. The user can then build scenarios of different packages of expanded heath coverage. For each of these packages the model produces estimates of deaths averted and will produce estimates of costs. The most important work that will be done in this grant is to continue to add functions that support decision making at the country level. For example, the first costing component is being developed and estimates of causes of maternal deaths and effectiveness of interventions to reduce these deaths are being produced for incorporation into the LiST tool. CHERG will also support the development of a web-based version of the tool for less in-depth analyses of the costs and impact of scaling up interventions. We assume that this tool will be used to help develop advocacy pieces by answering questions such as “How many lives could be saved if we provided an additional one million dollars for vaccines in the Congo?” Related Articles Maternal, neonatal, and child health in southeast Asia: towards greater regional collaboration. Acuin, Cecilia S, Geok Lin Khor,Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, Endang L Achadi,Thein Thein Htay, Rebecca Firestone, Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). The Lancet. 377(9764): 516-525. Scaling up diarrhea prevention and treatment interventions: A Lives Saved Tool analysis. Fischer-Walker CL, Ingrid K Friberg, Nancy Binkin, Mark Young, Neff Walker, Olivier Fontaine, Eva Weissman, Akanksha Gupta, Robert E Black (2011). PLoS Medicine. 8(3): 1-10. Stillbirths: how can health systems deliver for mothers and babies? The Lancet. Pattinson, Robert, Kate Kerber, Eckhart Buchmann, Ingrid K Friberg, Maria Belizan, Sonia Lansky, Eva Weissman, Matthews Mathai, Igor Rudan, Neff Walker, Joy E Lawn, for the Stillbirths Series steering committee (2011). 377(9777): 1610-1623.
Stillbirths: what difference can we make and at what cost? Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Joy E Lawn, Arjumand Rizvi, Ingrid K Friberg, Eva Weissman, Eckhart Buchmann, Robert L Goldenberg, for the Stillbirths Series steering committee (2011). The Lancet. 377(9776): 1523-1538. New BMC Public Health LiST Supplement Now Online New LiST Interactive Training Tool Now Online
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