Cost-Effectiveness of Rural Incentive Packages for Graduating Medical Students in Lao PDR
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Background The dearth of health workers in rural settings in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) and other developing countries limits healthcare access and outcomes. In evaluating non-wage financial incentive packages as a potential policy option to attract health workers to rural settings, understanding the expected costs and effects of the various programs ex antecan assist policy-makers in selecting the optimal incentive package. Methods We use discrete choice experiments (DCEs), costing analyses and recent empirical results linking health worker density and health outcomes to estimate the future location decisions of physicians and determine the costeffectiveness of ۱۵ voluntary incentives packages for new physicians in Lao PDR. Our data sources include a DCE survey completed by medical students (n = ۳۲۹) in May ۲۰۱۱ and secondary cost, economic and health data. Mixed logit regressions provide the basis for estimating how each incentive package influences rural versus urban location choice over time. We estimate the expected rural density of physicians and the cost-effectiveness of ۱۵ separate incentive packages from a societal perspective. In order to generate the cost-effectiveness ratios we relied on the rural uptake probabilities inferred from the DCEs, the costing data and prior World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that relate health outcomes to health worker density. Results Relative to no program, the optimal voluntary incentive package would increase rural physician density by ۱۵% by ۲۰۱۶ and ۶۵% by ۲۰۴۱. After incorporating anticipated health effects, seven (three) of the ۱۵ incentive packages have anticipated average cost-effectiveness ratio less than the WHO threshold (three times gross domestic product [GDP] per capita) over a ۵-year (۳۰ year) period. The optimal package’s incremental cost-effectiveness ratio is ۱۴۵۴/QALY (quality-adjusted life year) over ۵ years and ۲۳۸۰/QALY over ۳۰ years. Capital intensive components, such as housing or facility improvement, are not efficient. Conclusion Conditional on using voluntary incentives, Lao PDR should emphasize non-capital intensive options such as advanced career promotion, transport subsidies and housing allowances to improve physician distribution and rural health outcomes in a cost-effective manner. Other countries considering voluntary incentive programs can implement health worker/trainee DCEs and costing surveys to determine which incentive bundles improve rural uptake most efficiently but should be aware of methodological caveats.
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Health Workers (Rural) , Health Economics (Cost-Effectiveness Analysis) , Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
Authors
Eric Keuffel
Health Finance & Access Initiative, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Wanda Jaskiewicz
IntraHealth International, Washington, DC, USA
Khampasong Theppanya
Ministry of Health (Lao PDR), Vientiane, Lao PDR
Kate Tulenko
IntraHealth International, Washington, DC, USA
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