Measuring the positive potential value of birth in economic evaluation of perinatal interventions

Front Glob Womens Health. 2025 Jun 20:6:1492231. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1492231. eCollection 2025.

Meghan Bruce Kumar^{1

2}, Mabel Berrueta³, Ezequiel García-Elorrio³, Mahesh C Puri⁴, Lisa Hinton⁵, Dorothy Oluoch², Cicely A Marston^{5

6}

¹ Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
² Department of Health Systems and Research Ethics, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
³ Department of Maternal and Child Health Research, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities (CREHPA), Lalitpur, Nepal.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: economic evaluation; health economics; maternal health; perinatal; person-centred care; strengths-based; well-being.