Contextualization of cost-effectiveness evidence from literature for 382 health interventions for the Ethiopian essential health services package revision

Table 1 Number of essential health service package interventions and cost-effectiveness evidence synthesis approaches by program area

Major program areas	Total	WHO-CHOICE	Searched	Contextualized
RMNCH	333	51	282	121
Noncommunicable diseases	218	74	144	93
Surgical care	181	0	181	90
Multisectoral nutrition interventions*	64	0	-	-
Major communicable diseases	62	18	44	36
Health education and BCC	57	1	56	13
Emergency and critical care*	39	0	-	-
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)	35	0	35	12
Hygiene & environment health (H&EH)	29	0	29	17
Overall	1018	144	771	382

Searched = CEA evidence was sought from the literature; contextualized = CEA evidence was found and contextualized
BCC Behavioral change communication
*For multisectoral nutrition interventions and emergency and critical care interventions, we classified interventions as very cost effective, cost effective, and not cost effective based on local expert judgment

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