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The Missed Opportunities functionality allows users to quickly review potential deaths averted by intervention for a given country.
The basic premise of Missed Opportunities is to model what would happen if we were to increase the coverage of each intervention individually from its current coverage to near universal (90%) coverage in the following hear. The results represent the difference between the number of deaths in the baseline year and the number of deaths in the end year, with the intervention scaled up to 90%. High numbers of averted deaths can be due to one of three things: (1) the intervention has low coverage at baseline, (2) the intervention has an impact on something that has a high cause of death, or (3) the intervention is highly effective at averting deaths due to that cause.
It is important to remember that results in Missed Opportunities cannot be summed across interventions. Unlike making a projection in LiST, in Missed Opportunities, each interventions is scaled up individually. These results do not interact with one another (i.e. lives that are averted by a preventative intervention will not be removed for the pool of curative interventions). Another caveat to Missed opportunities is that it does not give guidance at how feasible scaling up an intervention might be - those decisions require more information about the country/setting. It does however provide a quick overview of which interventions have high potential for lives saved.
To use the tool: 1. Select your country of interest.
2. Determine which results you would like to display, and toggle the outcomes that you are interested in on on the left hand panel
3. By default, all of the intervention types are selected along the continuum of care. If you would like to remove some categories of interventions, you can do so by deselecting some of the boxes in the intervention type.
For more information on how Missed Opportunities works, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kDPVU0-n9s&feature=youtu.be |
