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Meta-Analysis and Public Policy: Reconciling the Evidence on Deworming / Kevin Croke, Joan Hamory Hicks, Eric Hsu, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Ricardo Maertens, Witold Więcek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Croke, Kevin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22382.
- NBER working paper series no. w22382
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- The WHO recommends mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with >20% prevalence. Recent Cochrane meta-analyses endorse treatment of infected individuals but recommend against MDA. A theory-agnostic meta-analysis of the effect of multiple-dose MDA rejects the hypothesis of a common zero effect on child weight, mid-upper arm circumference, and height, and estimates significant average impacts. Estimates of implied treatment effect on infected children with MDA are not significantly different than those found for test and treat trials. These results suggest that MDA is a cost-effective intervention, particularly in the settings recommended by the WHO.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2016.
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