A toolkit for costing environmental health services in healthcare facilities
J Water Sanit Hyg Dev. 2021 Jul;11(4):668-675. doi: 10.2166/washdev.2021.018. Epub 2021 Jun 4.ABSTRACTEnvironmental health services (EHS) are critical for safe and functional healthcare facilities (HCFs). Understanding costs is important for improving and sustaining access to EHS in HCFs, yet the understanding of costs is poor and no tools exist to specifically support costing EHS in HCFs in low- and middle-income countries. We developed a toolkit to guide the following steps of costing EHS in HCFs: defining costing goals, developing and executing a data collection plan, calculating costs, and disseminating findings. The c...
Source: Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development - September 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Darcy M Anderson J Wren Tracy Ryan Cronk Hayley Schram Nikki Behnke Jamie Bartram Source Type: research