The ability and willingness of health care workers to report for work during a pandemic are essential to pandemic response. The main contribution of this article is to examine the relationship between risk perception of personal and work activities and willingness to report for work during an...

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

Mit dem Ausbruch der Schweinegrippe - offiziell jetzt A(H1N1) - in Mexiko erscheint am Horizont erneut die Gefahr einer Grippepandemie, die ähnlich wie die Pandemien des 20. Jahrhunderts (u. a. die Spanische Grippe 1918-1919) Hunderttausende oder gar Millionen Opfer fordern könnte. In den...

Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide...