A more equitable approach to economic evaluation
Directly developing conceptual capability wellbeing attributes for Tanzania and Malawi
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Capability wellbeing can potentially provide a holistic outcome for health economic evaluation and the capability approach seems promising for African countries. As yet there is no work that has explored the evaluative space needed for health and care decision making at the whole population level and procedures that merely translate existing measures developed in the global north to contexts in the global south risk embedding structural inequalities. This work seeks to elicit the concepts within the capability wellbeing evaluative space for general adult populations in Tanzania and Malawi. Semi-structured interviews with 68 participants across Tanzania and Malawi were conducted between October 2021 and July 2022. Analysis used thematic coding frames and the writing of analytic accounts. Interview schedules were common across the two country settings, however data collection and analysis were conducted independently by two separate teams and only brought together once it was clear that the data from the two countries was sufficiently aligned for a single analysis. Eight common attributes of capability wellbeing were found across the two countries: financial security; basic needs; achievement and personal development; attachment, love and friendship; participation in community activities; faith and spirituality; health; making decisions without unwanted interference. These attributes can be used to generate outcome measures for use in economic evaluations comparing alternative health interventions. By centring the voices of Tanzanians and Malawians in the construction of attributes that describe a good life, the research can facilitate greater equity within economic evaluations across different global settings
Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Equity (law · Friendship · Health care · Political science · Population · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Thematic analysis · Global Health Care Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
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