Prioritizing risk factors to identify preventive interventions for economic assessment

Abstract

Objective To explore a risk factor approach for identifying preventive interventions that require more in-depth economic assessment, including cost-effectiveness analyses. Methods A three-step approach was employed to: (i)identify the risk factors that contribute most substantially to disability-adjusted life years (DALYs); (ii)re-rank these risk factors based on the availability of effective preventive interventions warranting further cost-effectiveness analysis (and in some instances on evidence from existing cost-effectiveness analyses); and (iii)re-rank these risk factors in accordance with their relative contribution to health inequalities. Health inequalities between the Māori and non-..