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Generalizability of health economic evaluations : methods for multinational patient-level studies
Filonenko, Anna - 2010
Background: Cost-effectiveness outcomes collected in multinational health economic studies may vary across countries and geographic areas due to numerous clinical and socioeconomic factors. The between-country variability poses the question of generalizability of the cost-effectiveness...
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Trends in the Measurement of Health Utilities in Published Cost-Utility Analyses
Brauer, Carmen A.; Rosen, Allison B.; Greenberg, Dan; … - 2006
Objective:  The Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommended the compilation of a catalog of health state utility weights for use in cost-utility analyses (CUAs), and has given methodological recommendations. This study presents an update, through 2001, to our current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477018
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ARE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STAMP POLICIES COST-EFFECTIVE?
de Mouzon, O.; Requillart, V.; Soler, L.G.; … - 2010
In many countries, consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is below recommendedlevels. We quantify the economic and health effects of F&V stamp policy designed for low income consumers. The analysis combined two models: an economic model which predictshow F&V consumption is affected by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445856
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Colorectal cancer screening in Australia: an economic evaluation of a potential biennial screening program using faecal occult blood tests
Stone, C. A.; Carter, R. C.; Vos, T.; St John, J. - 2004
Objective: To evaluate whether the introduction of a national, co-ordinated screening program using the faecal occult blood test represents 'value-for-money' from the perspective of the Australian Government as third-party funder. Methods: The annual equivalent costs and consequences of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448052
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Priority Setting for Interventions to Prevent Road Traffic Injuries Related to Driving under the Influence of Alcohol in Thailand: Cost-effectiveness of Measures to Reduce Drunk Dr...
Vallop Ditsuwan - 2011
Background: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the second largest cause of death in Thailand in 2004-2005 and ranked second in terms of disability-adjusted life years lost in 1999. Alcohol is an important contributing factor of road traffic crashes that cause injuries, disabilities and deaths....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448534
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Stochastic league tables: Communicating cost-effectiveness results to decision-makers
Hutubessy, R. C. W.; Baltussen, Rmpm; Evans, D. B.; … - 2001
The presentation of the results of uncertainty analysis in cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) in the literature has been relatively academic with little attention paid to the question of how decision-makers should interpret the information particularly when confidence intervals overlap. This...
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Preferences for 'life-saving' programmes: Small for all or gambling for the prize?
Gyrd-Hansen, D; Kristiansen, IS - 2008
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Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment
Boudreau, James W. - 2008
Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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Long-Term Unemployment and Subsidizing Vacancies in a Growth-Matching Model
Birk, Angela - 2001
How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching … geeignete Politikmaßnahmen des Staates reduziert werden? In diesem Artikel wird ein Wachstums-Matching-Modell entwickelt, das …
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