Journal article
Cost-effectiveness of Increasing Access to Contraception during the Zika Virus Outbreak, Puerto Rico, 2016
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.23(1), pp.74-82
01/01/2017
DOI: 10.3201/eid2301.161322
PMCID: PMC5176229
PMID: 27805547
Abstract
We modeled the potential cost-effectiveness of increasing access to contraception in Puerto Rico during a Zika virus outbreak. The intervention is projected to cost an additional $33.5 million in family planning services and is likely to be. cost-saving for the healthcare system overall. It could reduce Zika virus related costs by $65.2 million ($2.8 million from less Zika virus testing and monitoring and $62.3 million from avoided costs of Zika virus associated microcephaly [ZAM]). The estimates are influenced by the contraception methods used, the frequency of ZAM, and the lifetime incremental cost of ZAM. Accounting for unwanted pregnancies that are prevented, irrespective of Zika virus infection, an additional $40.4 million in medical costs would be avoided through the intervention. Increasing contraceptive access for women who want to delay or avoid pregnancy in Puerto Rico during a Zika virus outbreak can substantially reduce the number of cases of ZAM and healthcare costs.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Cost-effectiveness of Increasing Access to Contraception during the Zika Virus Outbreak, Puerto Rico, 2016
- Creators
- Rui Li - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USAKatharine B. Simmons - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USAJeanne Bertolli - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USABrenda Rivera-Garcia - Puerto Rico Dept Hlth, San Juan, PR USAShanna Cox - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USALisa Romero - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USALisa M. Koonin - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USAMiguel Valencia-Prado - Puerto Rico Dept Hlth, San Juan, PR USANabal Bracero - Univ Puerto Rico & Puerto Rico, Sect Amer Coll Obstet & Gynecol, San Juan, PR USADenise J. Jamieson - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USAWanda Barfield - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USACynthia A. Moore - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USACara T. Mai - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USALauren C. Korhonen - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USAMeghan T. Frey - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USAJanice Perez-Padilla - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USARicardo Torres-Munoz - Puerto Rico Dept Hlth, San Juan, PR USAScott D. Grosse - Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, 4770 Buford Hwy NE,Mailstop F-74, Atlanta, GA 30341 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.23(1), pp.74-82
- DOI
- 10.3201/eid2301.161322
- PMID
- 27805547
- PMCID
- PMC5176229
- NLM abbreviation
- Emerg Infect Dis
- ISSN
- 1080-6040
- eISSN
- 1080-6059
- Publisher
- Centers Disease Control & Prevention
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Obstetrics and Gynecology; VPMA - Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984446535602771
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