TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing costs of a hypertension management program
T2 - An application of the HEARTS costing tool in a program planning workshop in Thailand
AU - Husain, Muhammad Jami
AU - Allaire, Benjamin T.
AU - Hutchinson, Brian
AU - Ketgudee, Lalida
AU - Srisuthisak, Sasamon
AU - Yueayai, Khanuengnij
AU - Pisitpayat, Nichakul
AU - Nugent, Rachel
AU - Datta, Biplab Kumar
AU - Joseph, Kristy T.
AU - Kostova, Deliana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - The HEARTS technical package, a part of the Global Hearts Initiative to improve cardiovascular health globally, is a strategic approach for cardiovascular disease prevention and control at the primary care level. To support the evaluation of costs associated with HEARTS program components, a costing tool was developed to evaluate the incremental cost of program implementation. This report documents an application of the HEARTS costing tool during a costing workshop prior to the initiation of a HEARTS pilot program in Thailand's Phothong District, 2019-2020. During the workshop, a mock exercise was conducted to estimate the expected costs of the pilot study. The workshop application of the tool underscored its applicability to the HEARTS program planning process by identifying cost drivers associated with individual program elements. It further illustrated that by supporting disaggregation of costs into fixed and variable categories, the tool can inform the scalability of pilot projects to larger populations. Lessons learned during the initial development and application of the costing tool can inform future HEARTS evaluation efforts.
AB - The HEARTS technical package, a part of the Global Hearts Initiative to improve cardiovascular health globally, is a strategic approach for cardiovascular disease prevention and control at the primary care level. To support the evaluation of costs associated with HEARTS program components, a costing tool was developed to evaluate the incremental cost of program implementation. This report documents an application of the HEARTS costing tool during a costing workshop prior to the initiation of a HEARTS pilot program in Thailand's Phothong District, 2019-2020. During the workshop, a mock exercise was conducted to estimate the expected costs of the pilot study. The workshop application of the tool underscored its applicability to the HEARTS program planning process by identifying cost drivers associated with individual program elements. It further illustrated that by supporting disaggregation of costs into fixed and variable categories, the tool can inform the scalability of pilot projects to larger populations. Lessons learned during the initial development and application of the costing tool can inform future HEARTS evaluation efforts.
KW - HEARTS costing tool
KW - HEARTS technical package
KW - Thailand
KW - application of costing tool
KW - costing tool workshop
KW - hypertension and cardiovascular disease management
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U2 - 10.1111/jch.13773
DO - 10.1111/jch.13773
M3 - Article
C2 - 31873977
AN - SCOPUS:85076915930
VL - 22
SP - 111
EP - 117
JO - Journal of the CardioMetabolic Syndrome
JF - Journal of the CardioMetabolic Syndrome
SN - 1524-6175
IS - 1
ER -