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Table 3 The sensitivity to the relative increase in the number of morbidity case years averted by annual community-wide treatment to the level of coverage in adults

From: An economic evaluation of expanding hookworm control strategies to target the whole community

  

Community-wide treatment

Transmission setting

Intensity thresholds for morbidity

Adult coverage: 75 %

Adult coverage: 55 %

Adult coverage: 35 %

Intermediate

Lower

749 %

520 %

339 %

 

Higher

317 %

258 %

203 %

High

Lower

394 %

275 %

168 %

 

Higher

527 %

439 %

327 %

  1. Percentage gain is relative to annual child-targeted treatment with a coverage of 75 %. The effect is expressed in terms of morbidity case years prevented i.e. the number of years lived with morbidity averted across the time horizon. For each year the effectiveness was calculated as the difference between the number of cases and the number in absence of treatment. Assumptions are as in Table 2