FairChoices DCP Analytics Tool
The FairChoices DCP Analytics Tools team is led by Kjell Arne Johansson and Øystein Haaland at the University of Bergen.
Main content
The aim of the FairChoices - DCP Analytics Tool team is to develop and maintain a user-friendly tool that can be tailored to national priority setting processes and make evidence on cost-effectiveness, equity impact and financial risk protection (FRP) more easily available to policy makers who have little technical background in these methods.
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Project
In collaboration with Disease Control Priorities (DCP) and others, the involved researchers have developed models using evidence from standard epidemiologic and health economic evaluations for user-friendly visualisations of impact on health, equity, and financial risk protection. The BCEPS FairChoices DCP Analytics Tool team develop a more user-friendly prototype of the tool and to tailor it to national priority setting processes in collaboration with national experts and groups working on health benefit packages and universal health coverage priorities. The challenge for this ambitious project is to make evidence from hundreds of interventions available in an understandable and meaningful way and to bridge clinical decision making, helath economics, ethics and policy. A comprehensive decision support tool like FairChoices is needed and such information is too important to be missed out and the FairChocies team aims to make this evidence available for real world priority setting. Initial users of the tools will be trained stakeholders in low-income countries that are involved in defining priority packages in each country.
Objectives of FairChoices DCP Analytics Tool
As a policy tool
Assist policy makers in countries in a comprehensive revision of essential health care packages, by analysing and visualising the expected outcomes of applying explicit criteria for priority setting
As a research tool
Develop and apply methods to better be able to combine fairness, efficiency and clinical concerns in health care priorities
FairChoices team
FairChocies is developed by Kjell Arne Johansson, Jan-Magnus Økland (Chief programmer), and Øystein Haaland at BCEPS UiB.
Core team: David Watkins (head of DCP site at University of Washington), Gunjeet Kaur (Responsible for Evidence Briefs), Sali Ahmed (Responsible for cost analysis), Matthew M. Coates (responsible for analysis of integrated teams and severity measures, collaboration with NCDI poverty network), William Msemburi (responsible for demography analyses)
Contributors (alphabetical order): Mihiret Wake Abza, Lelisa Fekadu Assebe, Ceren Ellertsen, Marius L. Fimland, Taran Grønvik, Alemayehu Hailu, Eline Sadiya Henriksen, Ryan Hoskins, Jessica Hubbers, Dean Jamison, Shokouh Makvandi-Nejad, Solomon Tessema Memirie, Ingrid Miljeteig, Genet Mulugeta, Asad Naveed, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Omar Mwalim Omar, Sarah Pickersgill & Stéphane Verguet
Evidence briefs
Evidence briefs summarizing key input parameters for clusters of interventions in FairChoices. Taxonomy of interventions is here (all interventions not analysed yet). DCP-3 volumes are important evidence sources.
1. Surgery
Evidence briefs in this cluster soon to be uploaded
3. Reproductive Health
4. Maternal and newborn health
5. Child and adolescent health
6. HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
7. Malaria
MALR01-01 indoor residual spraying
MALR01-02 insecticide treated bednets for pregnant women and children at facilities
MALR01-04 Malaria chemoprophylaxis
MALR01-06/07 Intermittend malaria prevention infants/pregnancy
MALR01-08 Larviciding and watermanagement against malaria
MALR02 Malaria treatment (ACT) and diagnostics (RDT/microscope)
MALR03 Malaria treatment in high endemic settings
MALR04 Comprehensive management of severe malaria
MALR05-01 Malaria contact tracing (part of elimination strategy)
8. Tuberculosis (TB)
9. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
NTD01 Sustained vector management for nationally important causes of nonmalarial feve
NTD01‐01 Vector management for chagas disease
NTD01‐02 Vector management for dengue
NTD01‐03 Vector management for leishmaniasis
NTD02 Mass drug administration for NTDs
NTD02‐01 Preventive chemotherapy for Schistosomiasis
NTD02‐02 Preventive chemotherapy for soil‐transmitted helminthiasis
NTD02‐03 Preventive chemotherapy for Onchocerciasis
NTD02‐04 Preventive chemotherapy for Lymphatic filariasis
NTD02‐05 Preventive chemotherapy for Trachoma
NTD02‐06 Preventive chemotherapy for food‐borne trematodiases
NTD03 Early detection and treatment of nationally important NTDs
NTD03‐01 Chagas disease
NTD03‐02 Human African trypanosomiasis
NTD03‐06‐01 Rabies post exposure prophylaxis
NTD03‐07 Lymphatic filariasis: hydrocele surgery*
NTD03‐08 Trichiasis*
10. Infections in general
11. Cancer
12. CVD+ (metabolic disorders, kidney failure, etc.)
CVD03-01 secondary prevention CVD, post IHD
CVD03-02 secondary prevention CVD, post stroke
CVD03-03 secondary prevention peripheral vascular disease
CVD04-01 aspirin for chest pain
CVD04-02 management of acute coronary syndrome (unfractionated heparin +)
CVD05-02 chronic heart failure
CVD06-01 RHD-penicillin GBS tonsillitis
CVD06-02 RHD-long term penicillin rheumatic fecer
CVD07-01 limb ischemia (heparin)
13. Musculoskeletal disorders
14. Respiratory disorders
15. Mental & substance use disorders
16. Neurological disorders
17. Rehabilitation
No interventions analysed here yet, expected to be included in FairChocies v3.0
18. Nutrition
Nutrition in reproductive age
NUTR01-01 Daily iron and folic acid supplementation (pregnant women)
NUTR01‐02 Calcium supplementation (high dose >= 1 g/day), pregnancy
NUTR01‐03 Food and caloric supplementation to pregnant women
NUTR01‐04-01 Promotion of exclusive breastfeeding from birth &
NUTR01-04-02 Complimentary feeding >6 months
NUTR01‐05 Intermittent iron‐folic acid supplementation
Child nutrition
NUTR02-01 Daily iron supplementation for children 6 to 23 months (where anaemia is >40%)
NUTR02‐02 Intermittent iron supplementation in children (age 24‐59 months)
NUTR02‐03 Vitamin A to children 6 to 59 months
NUTR02‐04 Zn to children 6 to 59 months
NUTR02‐05 Food to children in insecure households
Severe malnutrition
NUTR03-01 Management of acute malnutrition without medical complications
NUTR03‐02 Management of severe acute malnutrition with medical complications
19. Hearing and vision improvement
20. Interpersonal violence
No interventions analysed here yet, expected to be included in later versions of FairChocies
21. Health system services
No interventions analysed here yet, expected to be included in later versions of FairChocies
22. Pandemic infections
No interventions analysed here yet, expected to be included in later versions of FairChocies
23. Intersectoral interventions
No interventions analysed here yet, expected to be included in later versions of FairChocies