6. Providing Interventions

Table 6.1: Package of Cost-Effective Interventions (US$)

Package of Cost-Effective Interventions (US$)
Cost per DALY
InterventionsLow-income countriesMiddle-income countries
Public health
Expanded program of immunization plus (that is, including vaccine against hepatitis B and vitamin A supplementation)15-2232-38
School health program25-3248-54
Tobacco and alcohol control program44-7057-70
AIDS prevention program4-6a16-23a
Other public health interventions(includes information, communication, and education on selected risk factors and health behaviors, plus vector control and disease surveillance)
Total18
Clinical services
Chemotherapy against tuberculosis4-66-9
Integrated management of the sick child38-6363-127
Family planning25-38127-190
Sexually transmitted disease treatment1-413-19
Prenatal and delivery care38-6376-139
Limited care (includes treatment of infection and minor trauma; for more complicated condition, includes diagnosis, advice, and pain relief, and treatment as resources permit)253-380507-760
Total168

Source: DCP2, chapter 64, table 64.2.

Note: — = not available, presumably because the authors were not able to aggregate data to country level.

a. Understates cost-effectiveness because the analysis examined the probability of transmission to others in the first year only.