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Prioritizing health care: is “health” always an appropriate maximand?

Oliver, Adam - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

In recent years, a few health economists have begun to question the ethical underpinnings of the standard practice of … QALY maximisation as a ubiquitous decision rule in the allocation of health care resources. Prominent among these is Erik …-saving health care interventions between patients who differ only in respect of the presence or absence of a disability. The results …

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Increasing the use of skilled health personnel where traditional birth attendants were providers of childbirth care: a systematic review

Vieira, Claudia; Portela, Anayda; Miller, Tina; Coast, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Background: Improved access to skilled health personnel for childbirth is a priority strategy to improve maternal … health. This study investigates interventions to achieve this where traditional birth attendants were providers of childbirth … to deploy midwives closer to communities: two studies in Indonesia reported an increase in use of skilled health …

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The impact of community mobilisation on HIV prevention in middle and low income countries: a systematic review and critique

Cornish, Flora; Priego-Hernandez, Jacqueline; Campbell, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

While community mobilisation (CM) is increasingly advocated for HIV prevention, its impact on measurable outcomes has not been established. We performed a systematic review of the impact of CM within HIV prevention interventions (N = 20), on biomedical, behavioural and social outcomes. Among...

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Is network meta-analysis as valid as standard pairwise meta-analysis? It all depends on the distribution of effect modifiers

Jansen, Jeroen P.; Naci, Huseyin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Background In the last decade, network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials has been introduced as an extension of pairwise meta-analysis. The advantage of network meta-analysis over standard pairwise meta-analysis is that it facilitates indirect comparisons of multiple interventions...

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Issues in the incorporation of economic perspectives and evidence into Cochrane reviews

McDaid, David; Shemilt, Ian; Marsh, Kevin; Henderson, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Background: Methods for systematic reviews of the effects of health interventions have focused mainly on addressing the …

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Digit ratio (2D:4D) and altruism: evidence from a large, multi-ethnic sample

Galizzi, Matteo M.; Nieboer, Jeroen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We look at the links between the Digit Ratio - the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger – for both right and left hands, and giving in a Dictator Game. Unlike previous studies with exclusively Caucasian subjects, we recruited a large, ethnically diverse...

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Optimal control of externalities in the presence of income taxation

Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

AA substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

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Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavours

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Gaertner, Wulf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …

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Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments

Ranger, Nicola; Niehörster, Falk - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed coastal communities. We present a framework to support the interpretation of current long-term...

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Does hospital competition save lives?: evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms

Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

-based reforms to the English National Health Service. From January 2006 onwards, every patient in England could choose their …

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