DCP-4 Volume 3: Interventions Outside the Health Care System

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. 

Co-Lead Editors: 

Lisa A. Robinson
Deputy Director, Center for Health Decision Science
Senior Research Scientist
Center for Health Decision Science and Center for Risk Analysis
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Brad Wong
Founder and Director, Mettalytics