This paper critically reviews the existing research on the cost-effective prevention and treatment of diarrheal diseases, and identifies research priorities in this area aimed at finding ways to reduce the diarrheal disease burden. In contrast to the empirical knowledge base that exists for...

The emergence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the European region and the high costs of nearly €536 million generated by the nearly 72,000 notified TB cases in the European Union are the factors driving the need for development and implementation of new tools against TB. In...

Falls are common among elderly people. About one-third of people over the age of 65 fall at least once a year. Falls can be caused by many different risk factors, intrinsic and extrinsic. Consequences of falls are divers and vary from fractures, loss of mobility, and functional decline to for...

Cost-effectiveness evaluations of interventions against infectious diseases are often performed using static models. Well-known static models are Markov models and decision trees. These models use a constant force of infection to estimate number of infected individuals. The dynamic effects of...

Background: Egypt has a higher non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden and mortality than the global average. It faces diminishing returns on effort in meeting SDG Target 3.4 on the reduction of premature deaths. Large-scale population-wide NCD screening campaigns and management is costly and...

Wirtschaftlichkeitsuntersuchungen und gesundheitsökonomische Evaluation -- Methodik der Entscheidungsanalyse -- Entwicklung eines Markov-Modells -- Ergebnisse der Basisfallbetrachtung, Sensitivitäts- und Szenarioanalysen des Fallbeispiels.