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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the armed forces : health economic considerations

McCrone, Paul R.; Knapp, Martin; Cawkill, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper addresses the use of health economics in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Armed Forces, with a view to assessing the feasibility of carrying out future evaluative studies. Although psychological and pharmacological interventions can be used to treat PTSD, no...

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Cost effectiveness of telehealth for patients with long term conditions (Whole Systems Demonstrator telehealth questionnaire study): nested economic evaluation in a pragmatic, clus...

Henderson, Catherine; Knapp, Martin; Fernández, José-Luis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Objective: To examine the costs and cost effectiveness of telehealth in addition to standard support and treatment, compared with standard support and treatment. Design: Economic evaluation nested in a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting: Community based telehealth...

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Cost effectiveness of strategies to combat road traffic injuries in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: mathematical modelling study

Chisholm, Daniel; Naci, Huseyin; Hyder, Adnan Ali; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Objective To identify and estimate the population costs and effects of a selected set of enforcement strategies for reducing the burden of road traffic injuries in developing countries. Design Cost effectiveness analysis based on an epidemiological model. Setting Two epidemiologically defined...

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Crisis Social Policy and Social Justice: the case for Greece

Venieris, Dimitris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper explores the potential contribution of social justice and social policy for an equitable recovery from the … crisis in the case of Greece. The first part discusses some theoretical dimensions of social justice focusing on its … interrelation with social policy. Social justice is a contested theoretical concept in social and political theory, and a powerful …

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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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Cost-utility analysis of intravenous immunoglobulin and prednisolone for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

McCrone, Paul R.; Chisholm, Daniel; Knapp, Martin; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

There is a paucity of economic evidence relating to interventions for peripheral nerve disorders and the aim of this study was to illustrate the application of economic evaluation in this area by making a comparison of the cost-effectiveness of intravenous immunoglobulin and prednisolone...

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Medical technology as a key driver of rising health expenditures: disentangling the relationship

Sorenson, Corinna; Drummond, Michael; Bhuiyan Kahn, Beena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Health care spending has risen steadily in most countries, becoming a concern for decision-makers worldwide. Commentators often point to new medical technology as the key driver for burgeoning expenditures. This paper critically appraises this conjecture, based on an analysis of the existing...

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Analysis of prices paid by low-income countries - how price sensitive is government demand for medicines?

Srivastava, Divya; McGuire, Alistair - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Access to medicines is an important health policy issue. This study analyses the demand for medicines in low-income countries from the perspective of the prices paid by public authorities. The analysis draws on World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Action International (HAI) 2006 data on...

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