Highlighting the evidence gap: how cost-effective are interventions to improve early childhood nutrition and development?

This article highlights the need for further evidence relevant to low- and middle-income countries. To facilitate comparison of cost-effectiveness between studies, and between contexts where appropriate, a move towards a common outcome measure such as the cost per disability-adjusted life years averted is advocated. Finally, given the increasing number of combined nutrition and stimulation interventions being tested, there is a significant need for evidence of cost-effectiveness for combined programmes. This too would be facilitated by the use of a common outcome measure able to pool the impact of both nutrition and stimulation activities.

Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Batura, N., Hill, Z., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Lingam, R., Colbourn, T., Kim, S., Sikander, S., Pulkki-Brannstrom, A.-M., Rahman, A., Kirkwood, B., Skordis-Worrall, J. Tags: Review Source Type: research