The CDC has proposed a project that would collect select information from specific organizations in order to conduct an analysis on the cost-effectiveness of interventions for improving population health.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Community Transformation Grants program was created to promote strategies designed to reduce chronic disease rates, prevent the development of secondary conditions, reduce health disparities and develop a stronger evidence base for effective prevention programming. Through the CTG program, the CDC funded 61 CTG cooperative agreements with state, local and tribal government agencies and non-profit organizations.
CDC's proposed project would collect select information needed to conduct cost and cost-benefit analyses regarding CTG-funded community interventions. That information includes intervention implementation costs, expenditures for labor, personnel, consultants, materials, travel, services and administration and more.
Information would be collected electronically, and the resulting analysis would be used to assist CTG participants in choosing intervention approaches for particular populations that are both beneficial to public health and cost-effective.
CDC is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget, and data collection for the project could begin as soon as July 2012.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Community Transformation Grants program was created to promote strategies designed to reduce chronic disease rates, prevent the development of secondary conditions, reduce health disparities and develop a stronger evidence base for effective prevention programming. Through the CTG program, the CDC funded 61 CTG cooperative agreements with state, local and tribal government agencies and non-profit organizations.
CDC's proposed project would collect select information needed to conduct cost and cost-benefit analyses regarding CTG-funded community interventions. That information includes intervention implementation costs, expenditures for labor, personnel, consultants, materials, travel, services and administration and more.
Information would be collected electronically, and the resulting analysis would be used to assist CTG participants in choosing intervention approaches for particular populations that are both beneficial to public health and cost-effective.
CDC is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget, and data collection for the project could begin as soon as July 2012.
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