在威尔士实施COVID-19屏蔽政策的成本
Bernadette Sewell1, Angela Farr2, Ashley Akbari3
1Swansea Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK. b.diethart@swansea.ac.uk.
BMC public health
|November 26, 2023
概括
在COVID-19期间,威尔士对临床极度脆弱 (CEV) 人群的初始14周的屏蔽干预成本为1330万英,平均每人113英. 需要进一步的研究来评估屏蔽的全部经济影响和政策价值.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- EVITE免疫研究评估了在威尔士COVID-19大流行期间保护临床极度脆弱 (CEV) 个体的影响.
- 屏蔽旨在减轻高风险人群的严重后果,并为未来的流行病准备提供信息.
- 这项研究特别报告了威尔士的屏蔽政策的实施成本.
研究的目的:
- 确定实施威尔士CEV个人屏蔽政策的财务成本.
- 为评估屏蔽作为公共卫生干预措施的经济可行性提供数据.
- 为未来卫生紧急情况的准备策略做出贡献.
主要方法:
- 关于被屏蔽个人数量的数据来自安全匿名信息链接数据库.
- 通过包括政府报告和个人通信在内的各种来源,确定了支持屏蔽的资源 (2020年3月至6月).
- 基于屏蔽干预的最初14周进行了成本分析.
主要成果:
- 大约有117,415个人最初被列入屏蔽名单.
- 在最初的14周内,支持受保护个人的总额外费用为13,307,654英,相当于每人113英.
- 每个被屏蔽的人的成本在102英到113英之间,考虑到每周的清单调整和支持条款,如食品和药品的交付.
结论:
- 本研究介绍了威尔士对CEV个体进行屏蔽措施的首次成本评估.
- 在此分析中没有包括机会成本,突出了了解总经济负担的差距.
- 进一步调查包括预算影响和机会成本在内的综合成本对于确定屏蔽政策的长期价值至关重要.
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