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. 2017 Aug 7;97(5):1428–1436. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0061

Table 3.

Cost (US$) per house of implementing the scaling up process (with and without community participation), research project, and routine for vector prevention

Scaling up process with community participation Scaling up experience without community participation Research project* Routine
Capital
 Vehicles and equipment 0.02 (0.4%) 0.02 (0.5%) 0.00 (0%) 0.02 (0.4%)
Recurrent
 Personnel 2.09 (53.6%) 2.09 (71.9%) 1.89 (42.1%) 4.53 (84.6%)
 Consumables: Information 0.24 (6.1%) 0.24 (8.2%) 0.88 (19.7%) 0.24 (4.5%)
 Consumables: Source Reduction 0.35 (8.8%) 0.35 (11.9%) 0.51 (11.3%) 0.37 (6.8%)
Consumables: Others 0.14 (3.5%) 0.14 (4.7%) 0.14 (2.6%)
 Meetings 1.02 (26.1%) 0.02 (0.8%) 0.85 (19%) 0.01 (0.2%)
 Transport 0.05 (1.3%) 0.05 (1.8%) 0.12 (2.7%) 0.05 (1%)
 Training 0.01 (0.2%) 0.01 (0.2%) 0.23 (5.1%) 0.00 (0.1%)
Total 3.91 2.91 4.48 5.35

Value and percentage of participation of each component of each cost.

*

Costs of the intervention package in a smaller scale research project.33

Consumables are break down in information materials such as flyers and leaflets, source reduction materials such as the plastic bags distributed to households to collect water containers and other minor materials used for the intervention (e.g., folders).