Use of health impact metrics for programmatic decision making in global health

Introduction to Use of health impact metrics for programmatic decision making in global health

Authors: Patricia H David

Putting health metrics into practice: using the disability-adjusted life year for strategic decision making

Implementing organizations are pressured to be accountable for performance. Many health impact metrics present limitations for priority setting; they do not permit comparisons across different interventions or...

Authors: Kim Longfield, Brian Smith, Rob Gray, Lek Ngamkitpaiboon and Nadja Vielot

Modeling health impact of global health programs implemented by Population Services International

Global health implementing organizations benefit most from health impact estimation models that isolate the individual effects of distributed products and services - a feature not typically found in interventi...

Authors: Hongmei Yang, Susan Duvall, Amy Ratcliffe, David Jeffries and Warren Stevens

Applying the disability-adjusted life year to track health impact of social franchise programs in low- and middle-income countries

Developing effective methods for measuring the health impact of social franchising programs is vital for demonstrating the value of this innovative service delivery model, particularly given its rapid expansio...

Authors: Dominic Montagu, Lek Ngamkitpaiboon, Susan Duvall and Amy Ratcliffe

Estimating the contribution of a service delivery organisation to the national modern contraceptive prevalence rate: Marie Stopes International's Impact 2 model

Individual family planning service delivery organisations currently rely on service provision data and couple-years of protection as health impact measures. Due to the substitution effect and the continuation ...

Authors: Michelle B Weinberger, Kenzo Fry, Tania Boler and Kristen Hopkins

Equity monitoring for social marketing: use of wealth quintiles and the concentration index for decision making in HIV prevention, family planning, and malaria programs

The majority of social marketing programs are intended to reach the poor. It is therefore essential that social marketing organizations monitor the health equity of their programs and improve targeting when th...

Authors: Nirali M Chakraborty, Rebecca Firestone and Nicole Bellows

Answering the question: are we making a difference?

Authors: Dale Huntington

Making the most of common impact metrics: promising approaches that need further study

Authors: John Grove, Joseph W Brown and Philip W Setel