Cost-effectiveness of using a social franchise network to increase uptake of oral rehydration salts and zinc for childhood diarrhea in rural Myanmar

Table 2 Costs and incremental cost

Societal perspective	Intervention area		Control area		Incremental cost per diarrhea
	Cost per event	Cost per diarrhea	Cost per event	Cost per diarrhea
Seeks care & gets ORASEL [a]	$2.78	$0.21	$1.85	$0.05	$0.16
Seeks care & no ORASEL [b]	$3.35	$1.34	$2.78	$1.09	$0.25
Doesn't seek care & gets ORASEL [c]	$0.78	$0.11	$0.35	$0.01	$0.10
No care, no ORASEL [d]	$1.35	$0.50	$1.28	$0.68	$0.18
Estimated cost per diarrhea		$2.16		$1.83	$0.33
Total estimated cost for 48,373 cases		$104,486		$88,522	$15,963

Costs per event rationale as follows.
[a]$0.78 for ORASEL and $2.00 for consultation=$2.78 or $0.35 for ORS-Zinc plus $1.50=$1.85.
[b] $2.00 for care seeking plus $1.35 for household cost =$3.35 or $1.50 for care seeking plus $1.28 for household cost=$2.78.
[c] $0.78 for ORASEL or $0.35 for ORS-Zinc.
[d] 1.35 for household costs or $1.28 for household costs.

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