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Policymakers can balance healthcare and economic impacts during outbreaks using a new framework. This tool identifies cost-optimal strategies, showing consistent results despite varying infection costs, aiding pandemic decision-making.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Economics
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Infectious disease outbreaks necessitate balancing public health interventions with socioeconomic impacts.
  • Policymakers require tools to navigate complex decisions involving healthcare burden and social distancing costs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an integrated framework for optimizing public health interventions during outbreaks.
  • To provide stakeholders with a tool for dynamic cost parameter input and strategy derivation.
  • To assess the sensitivity of cost-optimal strategies to variations in the cost per infection.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an integrated framework combining multi-objective optimization, economic evaluation, and an interactive dashboard.
  • Validated the framework using data from the early COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea.
  • Analyzed the consistency of cost-optimal solutions across a wide range of cost-per-infection values.

Main Results:

  • Cost-optimal intervention strategies showed remarkable consistency across a broad spectrum of costs per infection (USD 4,410–361,000).
  • Transmission reduction patterns remained similar, indicating policy insensitivity to cost variations.
  • The framework facilitated timely derivation of evidence-based intervention strategies.

Conclusions:

  • The developed framework offers a scalable and robust tool for pandemic decision-making.
  • Cost-optimal policies for infectious disease outbreaks are relatively insensitive to the estimated cost per infection.
  • Integrating optimization and economic evaluation supports evidence-based policy during public health emergencies.