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Background: Economic evaluation as an integral part of health technology assessment is today mostly applied to established technologies. Evaluating health care innovations in their early states of development has recently attracted attention. However, while it offers a number of benefits, it...
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Objectives: To critically examine the economic evidence on Cystic Fibrosis (CF) screening and to understand issues relating to the transferability of findings to the Australian context for policy decisions. Methods: A systematic literature search identified 25 economic studies with empirical...
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allow the calculation of QALYs. The CHU9D can now be used in the economic evaluation of paediatric health care interventions …
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The aim of this working paper is to examine the situation with respect to employment, conditions of work and life and labour relations in four EPZs in the Philippines: the Bataan Export Processing Zone (BEPZ); Mactan Export Processing Zone (MEPZ); Baguio City Export Processing Zone (BCEPZ); and...
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Invasive species are one of the main reasons for the loss of biodiversity. Therefore, national strategies are developed to deal with biological invasions. Economic evaluation as a tool of policy advice has to take into account three challenges: (1) reflecting ecological knowledge, which is...
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interventions by critically appraising the quality of the methodology. Methods: All relevant articles were identified by searching … interventions were assessed by each of the three, each of which was estimated to be cost-effective based on cost utility analysis … evaluation of smoking relapse prevention interventions have been conducted and further studies are required in this area. Future …
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We introduce a methodology for dynamic modelling and forecasting of realized covariance matrices based on generalization of the heterogeneous autoregressive model (HAR) for realized volatility. Multivariate extensions of popular HAR framework leave substantial information unmodeled in residuals....
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This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...
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