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Epidemiology modelling framework for the Thanzi la Onse project
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Decide which HealthSystem HR assumption and Mode to use for the "headline calibrations" #822

Open tbhallett opened 1 year ago

tbhallett commented 1 year ago

We are currently using "funded-plus" for the assumption of HR resources the [long_run_all_diseases](https://github.com/UCL/TLOmodel/blob/master/src/scripts/calibration_analyses/scenarios/long_run_all_diseases.py) scenario, which is the target of calibration work. (That scenario uses the default for full_model, which uses the defaults for health system, which is to use funded_plus: https://github.com/UCL/TLOmodel/blob/fc21d56f4aad982da2fba16010de123832aecf4d/src/tlo/methods/healthsystem.py#L459)

We should consider whether we should switch this to current or not. We can start by looking at the difference in epidemiological outcomes and healthcare system usage that results with either of these different assumptions.

As we are using Mode=1, we expect that this won't have very much influence. But, we should consider if we wish to use Mode=0 or 2 instead.

BinglingICL commented 1 year ago

We think it would be practical to use "Current/Actual" HCW capacity and Mode 1 (extra demand beyond HCW capacity will be met but appointment time will be squeezed by the squeeze factor).

NB. Under this adaption, the simulated counts of HSIs and appointments will not change but the total working time of HCW will.