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  • Health Economics
  • Epidemiology
  • Mathematical Modeling

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  • Cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) often simplify interventions by focusing on single diseases.
  • This can lead to suboptimal conclusions when interventions affect multiple diseases, such as vector control.
  • Multidisease models are typically complex and challenging to develop.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish criteria for incorporating multiple diseases into CEAs.
  • To propose a simplified method for estimating health outcomes and costs for additional diseases.
  • To demonstrate the application of parallel single-disease models in complex public health scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Developed conditions for including multiple diseases in CEAs.
  • Utilized parallel single-disease models to estimate outcomes and costs for additional diseases.
  • Applied the method to a case study comparing vaccines and vector control for dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever.

Main Results:

  • Parallel modeling produced results comparable to complex multidisease models with reduced complexity.
  • In a case study, insecticide was preferred for dengue and chikungunya alone.
  • Including Zika and yellow fever with broader interventions (insecticide-treated nets) altered the preferred strategy, showing the impact of multidisease effects.

Conclusions:

  • Parallel modeling offers an accurate and less complex alternative for CEAs involving multiple diseases.
  • This method can effectively incorporate competing mortality and coinfection.
  • The approach is valuable for public health decision-making when multidisease effects are significant.