Interventions Outside the Health Care System

About Volume 3

This volume will address intersectoral policies that aim to improve public health, such as those targeted on environmental, transportation, occupational, nutritional, behavioral, and other risks, including climate change. It will:

Evaluate interventions undertaken outside the health sector which offer potentially significant health benefits.
Provide evidence for use by individual ministries to prioritize interventions within a policy area, as well as by national governments and international organizations to prioritize interventions across policy areas.
Follow a systematic approach to identify policy areas and interventions for assessment, focusing on those most likely to yield substantial net benefits.
Develop and implement a consistent approach to economic evaluation to enhance comparability and prioritization, using benefit-cost analysis to account for health and non-health benefits.
Supplement conventional benefit-cost analysis with innovative measures to encompass overall well-being and distributional equity.
Help policymakers in LMICs direct scarce resources toward those intersectoral interventions that could provide the largest improvements in health and social welfare.

Volume 3 Contents

Front Matter

Introduction and Summary of Findings

Section I: Methods and Guidelines

● Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Benefit-Cost Analysis Primer
● Guidelines for Consistent and Comparable Economic Evaluation to Support Prioritization
● Selecting Policy Sectors and Interventions for Assessment
● Avoidable Health Burdens

Section II: Results by Policy Sector

● Habitual and addictive goods
● Household air pollution
● Ambient air pollution
● Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
● Road traffic injuries
● Gender equality
● Agriculture and nutrition
● Lead pollution
● Climate change

Back Matter

Annexes

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