SEEP- CI: A structured economic evaluation process for complex health system interventions.

Madan, Jason, Bruce Kumar, Meghan, Taegtmeyer, Miria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5377-2536, Barasa, Edwine and Preet Singh, Swaran (2020) 'SEEP- CI: A structured economic evaluation process for complex health system interventions.'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Issue 18, p. 6780.

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Abstract

Economic evaluation of health system interventions is challenging, and methods guidance on how to respond to these challenges is lacking. The REACHOUT consortium developed and evaluated complex interventions for community health programme quality improvement in six countries in Africa and Asia. Reflecting on the challenges we faced in conducting an economic evaluation alongside REACHOUT, we developed a Structured Economic Evaluation Process for Complex Health System Interventions (SEEP-CI). The SEEP-CI aims to establish the threshold effect size that would justify investment in a complex intervention, and provide an assessment to a decision-maker of how likely it is that the intervention can achieve this impact. We illustrate how the SEEP-CI could have been applied to REACHOUT to identify outcomes where the intervention might have impact and causal mechanisms through which that impact might occur, guide data collection by focusing on proximal outcomes most likely to illustrate the effectiveness of the intervention, identify the size of health gain required to justify investment in the intervention, and indicate the assumptions required to accept that such health gains are credible. Further research is required to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the SEEP-CI, and the contexts in which it could be used.
Keywords: Complex Intervention, Economic Evaluation, Health System Interventions

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	W General Medicine. Health Professions > W 74 Medical economics. Health care costs WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WA Public Health > Health Administration and Organization > WA 530 International health administration
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > International Public Health Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186780
Depositing User:	Rachel Dominguez
Date Deposited:	17 Sep 2020 19:33
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2020 19:33
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/15612

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