Accounting for equity considerations in cost-effectiveness analysis: a systematic review of rotavirus vaccine in low- and middle-income countries

Marie-Anne Boujaoude; Andrew J. Mirelman; Kim Dalziel; Natalie Carvalho

doi:10.1186/s12962-018-0102-2

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Table 1 Summary of the GPS-Health checklist and mapped indicators

From: Accounting for equity considerations in cost-effectiveness analysis: a systematic review of rotavirus vaccine in low- and middle-income countries

GPS-Health Equity checklist^a	Indicators^b	Definition
Group 1: Disease and intervention criteria
Severity	Severity of illness at the individual level	Mild/moderate/severe
Severity	Age distribution of the disease	Disease incidence by age group
Realization of potential	Final health status	Health status after treatment showing treatment benefit capacity
Past health loss	Presence of comorbidities	Presence of other diseases or conditions with the studied disease
Group 2: Criteria related to characteristics of social groups
Socioeconomic status	Household income level	Wealth level, occupation, and socioeconomic indices
	Relative coverage	Difference in coverage between the richest and poorest quintile
	Education	Education level of patients or parents
Area of living	Geographic location	Urban/rural; by province or by state
Gender	Sex at birth	Male/Female
Race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation	Race	Having certain physical characteristics
	Ethnicity	Belonging to a social group
	Religion	Belonging to a religious group
	Sexual orientation	Homo/Heterosexual
Group 3: Criteria related to protection against the financial effect of ill health
Economic productivity	Loss of productivity	Productivity lost due to illness
Economic productivity	Age	Age-weighting of DALYs
Care for others	Number of dependent persons	Are children or elderly depending on the patient?
Catastrophic health expenditure	Financial risk protection	Protection against catastrophic spending
Catastrophic health expenditure	Reliance on OOP expenditure	OOP spending due to illness for treatment or care

^aGPS-Health Equity checklist developed by Norheim et al. [18]
^bIndicators developed by authors

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