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Setting priorities for HIV/AIDS interventions : a cost-benefit approach
Brent, Robert J. - 2010
HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This …pt. 1. Why cost-benefit analysis is needed to set HIV/AIDS priorities -- pt. 2. HIV/AIDS as a hunger and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851248
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Cost-benefit analysis and health care evaluations
Brent, Robert J. - 2003
Cost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation which can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. This book attempts to build a bridge between cost-benefit analysis, as developed by economists, and the health care evaluation literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420110
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The political economy of HIV/AIDS in developing countries : TRIPS, public health systems, and free access
Coriat, Benjamin (contributor) - 2008
understanding of the political economy of HIV/AIDS in these vast regions, where it continues to spread with devastating social and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850669
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The Elgar companion to health economics
Jones, Andrew M. (contributor) - 2006
The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851278
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The economics of health behaviours
Kenkel, Donald Scott (contributor);  … - 2008
Emily Oster (2005), 'Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sexual Behavior, and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic', Quarterly Journal of … for Condoms to the Local Prevalence of AIDS', Journal of Human Resources, XXXI (4), Autumn, 869-97 -- Edward C. Norton …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852231
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Reforming healthcare systems
Marmor, Theodore - 2011
Industrialized World', Health Affairs, 24, 903-14. -- Beckfield, J. and N. Krieger (2009), 'Epi + demos + cracy: Linking Political … Quality of Life in the Contemporary World, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 311-31. … Reality of Managerialism', in Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy, Singapore: World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420117
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Economic welfare, international business, and global institutional change
Sobbrio, Giuseppe (contributor); Navarra, Pietro (contributor) - 2003
The distinguished authors in this volume address the fundamental causes for such heterogeneous international experiences, placing particular emphasis on the role of institutions. They demonstrate how the study of economic development is increasingly linked to the development of institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851666
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The record of global economic development
Jones, Eric L. - 2002
The record of global economic development analyses the long-term and current economic forces which promote or impede globalisation, drawing on the experience of economic history to help interpret major trends in modern economies
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851918
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Transport project evaluation : extending the social cost-benefit approach
Haezendonck, Elvira (contributor) - 2007
This book revisits traditional evaluation methods, such as cost-benefit analysis, to try and find a balance between the ever-increasing demand for transport, the search for sustainable mobility and green transport solutions, and the limited financial resources that governments are able to invest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420032
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Designing international environmental agreements : incentive compatible strategies for cost-effective cooperation
Schmidt, Carsten - 2000
The international character of today's most pressing environmental problems has become a key challenge for environmental policy making. As regulation by a supranational authority is not a realistic option at present, policymakers have to rely on decentralized approaches to the management of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473876