Quantifying Positive Health Externalities of Disease Control Interventions: Modeling Chikungunya and Dengue

Health interventions can generate positive externalities not captured in traditional, single-disease cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs), potentially biasing results.  Failure to capture positive externalities can bias CEA results, especially when evaluating interventions that affect multiple diseases. Multidisease modeling is a reasonable alternative for addressing such biases. Medical Decision Making