For example, infants born about 25 weeks after conception — about 15 weeks premature — typically lived 28 years longer by being placed in intensive care, at a cost of $1,200 for each year of healthy life gained.
Salomon says his research validates the cost-effectiveness of neonatal intensive care in countries economically similar to Mexico, but maybe not to very poor countries, where there may be more pressing needs for scarce medical resources.
"I think that our results, while they're based on data from Mexico, will generalize to an array of other middle-income countries. I would be more circumspect in trying to extrapolate to very low resource countries."
Harvard professor Joshua Salomon's research paper is published in the journal PloS Medicine, where he is a member of the editorial board.
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