What is Prevention Effectiveness?
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Prevention effectiveness is the systematic assessment of the impact of public health policies, programs, and practices on health outcomes. Econometric, decision, simulation, and operations modeling and methods are employed to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, efficiency, and cost of public health services, policies, and interventions. Prevention effectiveness research facilitates better decision-making about the allocation of resources around programmatic priorities.
Prevention effectiveness uses economic evaluation, policy analysis, and decision modeling to assess the impact of public health interventions and programs.
At CDC, prevention effectiveness methods are used to explain
- Health-related burden and costs
- Effectiveness and efficiency of health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention programs
- Health program prioritization based on optimization modeling
- Disease transmission and intervention modeling
- Health system performance
Articles
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- Chattopadhyay S. and Carande-Kulis V. Economics of Prevention: The Public Health Research Agenda, J Public Health Manag Pract. 2004;10(5):467–71.
- Grosse SD, Teutsch SM, Haddix AC. Lessons from cost-effectiveness research for United States public health policy. Annu Rev Public Health. 2007;28:365–91.
- Haddix AC, Teutsch SM, Corso PS, eds. Prevention effectiveness: a guide to decision analysis and economic evaluation. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University; 2003.
- Messonnier M. Economics and Public Health at CDC. MMWR. 2006; 55(SUP02):17–19.
- Skelton AG, Meltzer MI. 20 Years of Public Health Economics and Decision Sciences at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The CDC Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship, 1995-2015. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2016 Oct 28. [Epub ahead of print]).
- Rabarison, K. M., Bish, C. L., Massoudi, M. S., & Giles, W. H. (2015). Economic evaluation enhances public health decision making. Frontiers in public health, 3.
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