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Unsettling Modernity: Shifting Values and Changing Housing Styles in the Kathmandu Valley

Bhattarai-Upadhyay, Vibha; Sengupta, Urmi - In: Open House International 41 (2016) 2, pp. 87-94

Culture has always been important for the character of the cities, as have the civic and public institutions that sustain a lifestyle and provide an identity. Substantial evidence of the unique historical, urban civilisation remains within the traditional settlements in the Kathmandu Valley in...

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Vaccination Externalities

Boulier, Bryan L.; Datta, Tejwant S.; Goldfarb, Robert S - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

Abstract Vaccination provides indirect benefits to the unvaccinated. Despite its important policy implications, there … vaccination can be greater than one case of illness prevented among the nonvaccinated, so its omission from policy analyses …

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The Minicommunity Design to Assess Indirect Effects of Vaccination

Halloran, M. Elizabeth - In: Epidemiologic Methods 1 (2012) 1, pp. 83-105

Abstract We propose the minicommunity design to estimate indirect effects of vaccination. Establishing indirect effects … of vaccination in unvaccinated subpopulations could have important implications for global vaccine policies. In the … vaccination, similar to studies in larger communities to estimate indirect, total, and overall effects. Examples from the …

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among undergraduate students in Thailand during the peak of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in 2021

Lin, Su Myat; Rattanapan, Cheerawit; Mongkolchati, Aroonsri - In: Epidemiologic Methods 11 (2022) s1

vaccination and to identify the predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in university students. Methods A cross-sectional study …

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Branching Process Modelling of COVID-19 Pandemic Including Immunity and Vaccination

Atanasov, Dimitar; Stoimenova, Vessela; Yanev, Nikolay M. - In: Stochastics and Quality Control 36 (2022) 2, pp. 157-164

reproduction rate as well as on additional facets as immigration, adaptive immunity, and vaccination. Usually, in the existing …

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Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic

Paimre, Marianne; Virkus, Sirje; Osula, Kairi - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2023) 5, pp. 1164-1181

COVID-19 vaccination, socioeconomic indicators and self-reported health among older adults aged = 50 years living in Estonia … vaccinated. Also, interest in digital applications corresponded to vaccination readiness (rho = 0.25, p < 0.001). However, this …

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Prioritizing high-risk sub-groups in a multi-manufacturer vaccine distribution program

Hovav, Sharon; Herbon, Avi - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 28 (2017) 2, pp. 311-331

to propose a model for optimizing a large-scale influenza vaccination program (VP). The goal is to minimize the total … cost of the vaccination supply chain while guaranteeing a sufficiently high level of population protection. From a … clinics to each sub-group of customers during the vaccination season. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-integer programming …

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Modeling Addictive Consumption as an Infectious Disease

Alamar, Benjamin; Glantz, Stanton A. - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1

Abstract The dominant model of addictive consumption in economics is the theory of rational addiction. The addict in this model chooses how much they are going to consume based upon their level of addiction (past consumption), the current benefits and all future costs. Several empirical studies...

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Modeling Addictive Consumption as an Infectious Disease

Alamar, Benjamin; Glantz, Stanton A. - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1

The dominant model of addictive consumption in economics is the theory of rational addiction. The addict in this model chooses how much they are going to consume based upon their level of addiction (past consumption), the current benefits and all future costs. Several empirical studies of...

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Willingness to Pay for Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Positive Individuals in India

Gupta, Indrani - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy 10 (2007) 2

With falling prices of antiretroviral drugs in countries like India, there has been an increasing awareness that antiretroviral therapy can be made available and accessible to a large number of HIV-positive individuals. Prices, however, still remain high enough to keep ART out of reach of a...

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