Improving immunization coverage and equity - technical resources
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| Resource | UN OneHealth Tool, CEA country contextualization templates |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Tool designed to inform national strategic health planning in low- and middle-income countries. The cost-effectiveness analysis module allows for country-level CEA analysis using local data. |
| Content | •The OneHealth Tool attempts to link strategic objectives and targets of disease control and prevention programmes to the required investments in health system. The tool provides planners with a single framework for scenario analysis, costing, health impact analysis, budgeting and financing of strategies for all major diseases and health system components. The user can choose to plan for intervention target setting by vertical programme or by service delivery level. 8 programmes are included: child health; reproductive and maternal health; immunization; nutrition; water and sanitation (WASH); HIV; TB; and Malaria. • The CEA country contextualization templates are an addition that allows for country-level cost-effectiveness analysis that uses local data. Cost-effectiveness analysis can be conducted using the Spectrum generalized cost-effectiveness tool. Then, can proceed to assess health system implications and financial costs, using the OneHealth Tool to inform the design of health benefit packages and overall health strategies. |
| Use | Requires user input. The tool is populated with country-specific default information on epidemiology and estimated costs, but they can be changed by the country user to more locally relevant information. |
| Contraints/Limitations | •The tool has preset assumptions. •The formulas used are not visible in the software, but the user can still review them in the accompanying technical documentation and programming source code available upon request. |
| Example criteria this resource could address | Can be used for a cost-effectiveness analysis, and then can proceed to assess health system implications and financial costs. |
| If available, notes on the development process | The development of the OneHealth tool is overseen by the UN Inter Agency Working Group on Costing (IAWG-Costing). WHO provides technical oversight to the development of the tool, facilitates capacity building and provides technical support to policy makers to inform national planning and resource needs estimates. The first official version of the OneHealth Tool was released in May 2012. Since then the tool has been applied in over 55 countries to date, most of which in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Additional Links | |
| Link to access the resource | /en/component/content/article/un-onehealth-tool-cea-country-contextualization-templates?catid=651&Itemid=101 |