Table 1

Costing dimensions

Costing element	Measurement	Items
Health service	Cost of intervention through direct observations, interviews of clinical personnel, consultations with experts and activity based costing.	Personnel, equipment, pharmaceuticals, overhead (including utilities), building costs, administrative costs (including printing, posting, rents, security, cleaning), furniture, diagnostics, disposables, computer hardware and software, accommodation, per diems, training, supervision, travel allowances, health clinic staff costs for community drug distributor (CDD) selection (per diems and fuel).
Primary health workers	Cost of intervention through direct observations, field diaries and activity based costing.	Cost of using CDDs and other community health workers.
Education service	Cost of training teachers, cost of education services used during programme implementation	Teachers costs, cost of teacher’s time, per diems, teacher training, supervision, etc.
Productivity loss	Missed work, schooling and absenteeism over the last 4 weeks attributable to neglected tropical disease under study obtained using patient-specific questionnaires.	Presenteeism, missed work, missed school, missed unpaid work time per affected day, time needed to catch-up with missed unpaid work.
Informal carers	Opportunity costs for time spent by other household members to care for younger children and ill household members obtained using patient-specific questionnaires.	Time spent caring for other household members while individual goes to seek treatment.
Transportation	Obtained using patient-specific questionnaires.	Time spent going to centre for mass drug administration, cost of transport to destination.
Other non-health service costs	Obtained through direct observations, interviews of clinical personnel, consultations with experts, activity based costing and patient-specific questionnaires.	Cost of insecticides and larvicides.