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Table 6 Cost-effectiveness results

From: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of home-based postpartum care on neonatal mortality and exclusive breastfeeding practice in low-and-middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Country

Intervention

Analytic view point

Quality

Cost-effectiveness measure

Cost-effectiveness result

(US$ 2016)

GDP per capita

Neonatal Mortality Rate

Protective

Effectiveness (%)

Control

group

Bang 1999 [38]

India

Home-based neonatal care by village health workers

Program

Low

per neonatal death averted

13.86

1940

36.0

58.6

Pitt 2016 [43]

Ghana

Home visits made to pregnant women and their babies in the first week of life by community-based surveillance volunteers

Provider perspective

High

per discounted life-year saved

319

1641

11.0

32.8

LeFevre 2013 [40]

Bangladesh

Home visit made by community health workers to offer MNH services including postnatal home visits

Societal perspective (included program, provider and household costs)

High

Cost per neonatal death averted

2939

1517

22.0

43.7

Cost per DALY averted

103.44