Dear friends, We are conducting a research on cost effective analysis of sexual and reproductive health service provision. We focus only on medical services in both static clinic and outreach. We would like to focus on indicators like "Cost per client", "Cost per service", "Number of clients per service provider per day", "Cost recovery ratio", etc. Could you please share your experiences?
Thank you in advance.
M. Suchira Suranga
Hi Suchira,
There are couple of studies done in this area which you might find helpful.
Bond et al 2000 Journal article on Evaluation of outreach clinics held by specialists in general practice in England. This can be found on Journal of epidemiology and community health (2000) Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-56
Omstead-Rose and Campos (2012) Mobile Health Clinics : Increasing Access to Care in Central and Eastern Contra Costa County Prepared for East and Central County Health Access Action Team.
Hope this helps.
Itodo.
Hi Itodo,
Thanks a lot for your kind help and direction. I will read these article and come back to you for clarifications, if any. Hope you have handful of experience in this sector. Warm Regards,
Suranga
You're welcome Suchira.
I am also looking at sexual and reproductive health promotion programs to people of ages 16 - 25 years offered at outreach and clinical settings separately. So yes, these materials offered some sort of learning in that area.
Itodo.
Dear Suchira Suranga,
I think you may also find interesting this publication:
"Knapp, M., McDaid, D., & Parsonage, M. (2011). Mental health promotion and mental illness prevention: the economic case. Department of Health. London, UK: Department of Health.".
It focuses on a different health topic, but is a very well-structured analysis of the costs and economic pay-offs of a range of interventions in the area of mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention, to support the NHS.
Best regards
Sara
Dear Suchira,
I am doing a study which is similar of your kind but the setting is different.. May be following articles will help you:
Lagu T, Rothberg MB, Nathanson BH, Pekow PS, Steingrub JS, Lindenauer PK. The relationship between hospital spending and mortality in patients with sepsis. Arch Intern Med. 2011; 171: 292–299.
Yasaitis L, Fisher ES, Skinner JS, Chandra A. Hospital quality and intensity of spending: is there an association? Health Affair. 2009;28: 566–572.
Narang A, Kiran PS, Kumar P. Cost of neonatal intensive care in a tertiary care center. Indian Pediatr. 2005; 42: 989–997.
Kahn JM. Understanding economic outcomes in critical care. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2006; 12(5):399–404.
Roberts RR, Frutos PW, Ciavarella GG, et al. Distribution of variable vs fixed costs of hospital care. JAMA. 1999; 281(7):644–649.
Thanks a lot Dear Usha Rani and Sara Carbone ·for your valuable contribution
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