Usage

The HIIC is a free tool designed to evaluate generic prevention policies targeting single diseases and age-groups. We leverage our advanced proportional multi-state lifetable (PMSLT) simulation model to provide access to over 100,000 simulated policy scenarios targeting reductions in incidence rate, disability rate, and case-fatality rate of various chronic diseases in the Australian population.

Design your intervention

Before you get started with a HIIC, you should conceptualise key components of your prevention policy, such as its target demographic, duration, and associated implementation costs. Understanding and accurately defining these input components may require indepedent research, as well as due consideration of what is realistically achievable.

Simulate your intervention

Get started with the HIIC by navigating to hiic.org and specifying the parameters of your prevention policy. An overview of input parameters required to specify interventions is provided below, with links to further documentation for each parameter.

Parameter	Description
target_disease	The disease targeted by the intervention. View docs.
target_metric	The metric (incidence rate, disability rate, or case-fatality rate) affected by the intervention. View docs.
target_reduction	The reduction in the selected target_metric coming as a result of the intervention. View docs.
application_type	Whether the intervention is applied on a 'cohort' basis, i.e. to individuals of a certain age in the starting year (2021); or a 'period basis', i.e. to individuals of a certain age in future years. View docs.
target_age	The age group targeted by the intervention. View docs.
target_sex	The sex group targeted by the intervention. View docs.
duration	How many years the intervention lasts for. View docs.
time_lag	The number of years after the base year, 2021, before the intervention commences. View docs.
cost	The present-value of all implementation costs associated with the intervention. View docs.