Barnett, Tony (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). pp. 366-372. ISSN 1460-2237
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 |
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| Official URL: | http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Oxford University Press |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Sets: | Research centres and groups > LSEAIDS Research centres and groups > LSE Health Collections > Economists Online |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2011 16:19 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/32295/ |
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