Trial-based economic evaluation of the system-integrated activation of community health volunteers in rural Ghana.

Background: Globally, steps to revitalise programmes deploying community health workers (CHWs) on a national scale have been growing, but few economic evaluations have been done on system-integrated CHW programmes. Ghana has dual cadres of CHWs: community health officers (CHOs) and community health volunteers (CHVs). CHO plays a major role in primary health services but has suffered from chronic staff shortages.

An Economic Analysis of Mumps Vaccination in Fiji: Static Model Simulation of Routine Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccination Instead of Current Measles-Rubella (MR) Vaccination.

Mumps remains endemic in Fiji, with 7802 cases reported between 2016 and 2018. The introduction of mumps vaccination has been discouraged due to perceptions of mumps as a self-limited disease and the perceived high cost of mumps vaccines. We estimated the benefits and costs of introducing a mumps vaccination program in Fiji.