@article{93478191f9104d23bb17d3f9f7f6674c,
title = "Overview of the lives saved tool (LiST)",
abstract = "This paper provides an overview of the historical development and current status of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). The paper provides a general explanation of the modeling approach used in the model with links to web sites and other articles with more details. It also details the development process in developing both the model structure as well as the assumptions used in the model. The paper provides information about how LiST has been and is currently being used by various organizations and within national health programs. We also provide a review of the work that has been done to try to validate the outputs of the model.",
author = "Neff Walker and Yvonne Tam and Friberg, {Ingrid K.}",
note = "Funding Information: The publication costs for this supplement were funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the US Fund for UNICEF (grant 43386 to “Promote evidence-based decision making in designing maternal, neonatal, and child health interventions in low-and middle-income countries”). The Supplement Editor is the principal investigator and lead in the development of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST), supported by grant 43386. He declares that he has no competing interests. This article has been published as part of BMC Public Health Volume 13 Supplement 3, 2013: The Lives Saved Tool in 2013: new capabilities and applications. The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpublichealth/supplements/13/S3. Funding Information: The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) is modelling software that has been in use the past 10 years. The initial version of the software was created as part of the work for the Child Survival Series published in The Lancet in 2003 [1]. The original purpose of the tool was to estimate the impact that scaling up community-based interventions would have on under-five mortality [2]. From this initial starting point, the software was updated to include an expanded set of interventions focused more on facility-based care, with the additional impacts being primarily on neonatal mortality [3,4]. The model was then adapted to handle populations and cohorts in an improved version that included wasting and stunting as risk factors, added to support the Lancet Nutrition Series in 2008 [5]. During this period, further development and maintenance of the tool were continued as part of the work of the Child Health and Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1186/1471-2458-13-S3-S1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
journal = "BMC public health",
issn = "1471-2458",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
number = "SUPPL.3",
}