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Table 5 Cost-effectiveness ratios for the participatory women’s groups’ interventions, community care packages, and facility based packages for neonatal health in LMICs (in 2013 International dollars)

From: Economic evaluations of interventions to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality: a review of the evidence in LMICs and its implications for South Africa

 Study

Cost of women’s group intervention per newborn life saved (with health systems strengthening)

Cost of women’s group intervention per year of life lost averted

Gross domestic product per person (current international dollar)

Women’s group interventions

   

 Tripathy et al. (2010) (India)

2022 (2908)

73 (106)

5418

 Lewycka et al. (2013) (Malawi)

11,240

290

780

 Fottrell et al. (2013) (in Prost et al. 2013) (Bangladesh)

45,420

1490a

2948

 Borghi et al. (2005) (Nepal)

N/A

428 (509)

2244

Community based packages

   

 Sabin et al. (2012) (Rural Zambia)

2230

205

3925.50

 LeFevre et al. (2013) (Bangladesh)—neonatal care package

6740

240

2948

 Bang et al. (2005) (Gadchiroli, India)

N/A

16

5418

 Lewycka et al. (2013) (Malawi)

2584

 N/A

780

Facility based package

   

 Manasyan et al. (2011) (Urban Zambia)—early neonatal care package

264

7

3925

  1. The numbers in parenthesis represent the cost-effectiveness when health systems strengthening initiatives were included
  2. aReported DALYs not YLL