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Economic evaluation of a combined microfinance and gender training intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence in rural South Africa

Jan, Stephen, Ferrari, Giulia ORCID: 0000-0002-1670-4905, Watts, Charlotte H., Hargreaves, James, Kim, Julia, Phetla, Godfrey, Morison, Linda, Porter, John D., Barnett, Tony ORCID: 0000-0001-9399-9607 and Pronyk, Paul (2011) Economic evaluation of a combined microfinance and gender training intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence in rural South Africa. Health Policy and Planning, 26 (5). 366 - 372. ISSN 1460-2237

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Identification Number: 10.1093/heapol/czq071

Abstract

Assess the cost-effectiveness of an intervention combining microfinance with gender and HIV training for the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa. We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a cluster-randomized trial. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of the intervention in both the trial and initial scale-up phase. We estimated the cost per DALY gained as US$7688 for the trial phase and US$2307 for the initial scale-up. The findings were sensitive to the statistical uncertainty in effect estimates but otherwise robust to other key assumptions employed in the analysis. The findings suggest that this combined economic and health intervention was cost-effective in its trial phase and highly cost-effective in scale-up. These estimates are probably conservative, as they do not include the health and development benefits of the intervention beyond IPV reduction.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://academic.oup.com/heapol
Additional Information: © 2010 The Authors
Divisions: LSE Health
IGA: Centre for Women Peace and Security
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2011 16:19
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2024 23:52
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32295

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