This paper examines the economics of farm decisions to prevent and control infectious livestock disease. In the case of … diseases with costly control tolerating some level of disease is often rational to the producer. Public policy intervention is … based on future value and public good aspects of disease control which can lead to a discrepancy between private and public …

the disease impact number (DIN) in health policy decision making. Design: Review of literature and calculation of PIN and … population impact of different interventions either within the same disease or in different diseases or conditions. The primary … relevant to the local setting. These need to be combined with local data on disease rates and population size. Depending on the …

difference in value of current versus future health benefits, also has been criticized. The distribution of the global disease … sexually transmitted infections. The Global Burden of Disease study also has been criticized for estimating mortality and … disease burden for regions using incomplete and uncertain data. Including uncertain results, with uncertainty quantified to …

Animal disease outbreaks either through deliberate terroristic act or accidental introductions present a serious … and accidental introduction events largely in the animal disease management setting. General economic issues and the … economic literature related to agricultural terrorism broadly and animal disease concerns specifically are reviewed. Basic …

of RTCs in Australia and costs range from approximately 0.62 to 3.63% of Gross State Product (GSP). The paper makes two … Australia, and (ii) it presents the first sub-national breakdown of RTC costs for Australia. We trust that these contributions …

Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …

average construction costs for two building types in two groups of EU countries, one using the euro, the other using their … individual national currencies, were gathered. These costs were converted to euros where necessary using two kinds of purchasing … power parities, adjusted for inflation and brought to a common base date. The dispersion of these costs was analysed using …

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: By understanding the costs of HIV/AIDS, businesses can understand the incentives for preventing and … treating the disease better. This report primarily investigates whether there is a difference in the relationship between HIV …/AIDS prevalence rates and related costs in different sectors in South Africa. With an HIV prevalence ratio of approximately 10:1 for …