Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Cost of individual peer counselling for the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda. | Chola et al. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2011 9 11 http content 9 1 11 COST EFFECTIVENESS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESEARCH Open Access Cost of individual peer counselling for the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda 2 3 4 5 2 Lumbwe Chola Lungiswa Nkonki Chipepo Kankasa Jolly Nankunda James Tumwine Thorkild Tylleskar Bjarne Robberstad2 and for The Study Group PROMISE-EBF Abstract Background Exclusive breastfeeding EBF for 6 months is the recommended form of infant feeding. Support of mothers through individual peer counselling has been proved to be effective in increasing exclusive breastfeeding prevalence. We present a costing study of an individual peer support intervention in Uganda whose objective was to raise exclusive breastfeeding rates at 3 months of age. Methods We costed the peer support intervention which was offered to 406 breastfeeding mothers in Uganda. The average number of counselling visits was about 6 per woman. Annual financial and economic costs were collected in 2005-2008. Estimates were made of total project costs average costs per mother counselled and average costs per peer counselling visit. Alternative intervention packages were explored in the sensitivity analysis. We also estimated the resources required to fund the scale up to district level of a breastfeeding intervention programme within a public health sector model. Results Annual project costs were estimated to be US 56 308. The largest cost component was peer supporter supervision which accounted for over 50 of total project costs. The cost per mother counselled was US 139 and the cost per visit was US 26. The cost per week of EBF was estimated to be US 15 at 12 weeks post partum. We estimated that implementing an alternative package modelled on routine public health sector programmes can potentially reduce costs by over 60 . Based on the calculated average costs and annual births scaling up modelled costs to district .
