The Investment Case for Building a “Next Generation” Primary Health Care Community Platform in Low-Income and Lower Middle-Income Countries for Accelerating Progress in Achieving Health for All

The attached models (MS Excel) evaluate the incremental cost and benefits associated with the implementation of a "next generation" primary healthcare community platform globally. Please contact Dr. Henry B. Perry for more information about the platform and the context of this modeling exercise. Model A estimates the incremental cost associated with the expansion of the existing program to match the new proposed program Model B estimates the economic benefit of the averted productivity loss associated with pediatric and maternal mortality Model C estimates the economic benefit of providing community health workers with a salary, assuming a proportion of this salary is spent in the community Model D estimates the economic benefit of pandemic preparedness and mitigation Model E estimates the economic benefit of the averted treatment costs and productivity loss associated with pediatric pneumonia and diarrhea cases averted Model F estimates the averted productivity loss associated with adult mortality due to HIV, tuberculosis, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus. The file "Compiling model" gathers the outputs from all models (copy-pasted; no direct link) to calculate the overall return on investment of the program over 20 years. Note that additional elements outside of the models presented here were included.