Effective RI microplanning requires accurate population estimates and maps showing health facilities and locations of villages and target populations. Traditional microplanning relies on census figures to project target populations and on community estimates of distances, while GIS microplanning uses satellite imagery to estimate target populations and spatial analyses to estimate distances. This paper estimates the cost-effectiveness of geographical information systems (GIS)-based microplanning for routine immunization (RI) programming in two states in northern Nigeria.
For our cost-effectiveness analysis, we captured the cost of all inputs for both approaches to capture the incremental cost of GIS over traditional microplanning and present the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios for each vaccine-preventable illness, death, and disability-adjusted life year (DALY) averted.
Authors: Disha Ali, Ann Levin, Masduq Adulkarim, Usman Tijjani, Bakohi Ahmed, Faruk Namalam, Femi Oyewole, Leanne Dougherty
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