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Increasing coverage of antiretroviral therapy and male medical circumcision in HIV hyperendemic countries : a cost-benefit analysis
Geldsetzer, Pascal; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; … - 2015
HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic … countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence >15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological … interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV epidemic in hyperendemic countries from 2015 through 2030: 1) increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288526
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Increasing Coverage of Antiretroviral Therapy and Male Medical Circumcision in HIV Hyperendemic Countries : A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Geldsetzer, Pascal - 2015
HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic … countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence >15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological … interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV epidemic in hyperendemic countries from 2015 through 2030: 1) increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016350
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2010
The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of preferences which are not necessarily additively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748321
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Risk aversion and the value of risk to life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2004
This paper argues for an alternative methodology to estimate the value of risk to life. By relaxing the assumption of additive separability, we introduce risk aversion with respect to the length of life and show that the extended model better fits available data. This is crucial for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450654
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A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF ACUTE MALNUTRITION TREATMENT USING READY TO USE THERAUPETIC FOODS
Jenkins, Glenn P. - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2013
The prevalence of malnutrition and anemia is high in Uganda. Thirty three percent of children under 5 years of age, are stunted and 5 percent wasted. This study conducts a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) program in the southwest region of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688091
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A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF ACUTE MALNUTRITION TREATMENT USING READY TO USE THERAUPETIC FOODS
Jenkins, Glenn P. - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2013
The prevalence of malnutrition and anemia is high in Uganda. Thirty three percent of children under 5 years of age, are stunted and 5 percent wasted. This study conducts a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) program in the southwest region of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735572
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Optimal Disease Eradication
Hoel, Michael; Barrett, Scott - 2004
Using a dynamic model of the control of an infectious disease, we derive the conditions under which eradication will be optimal. When eradication is feasible, the optimal program requires either a low vaccination rate or eradication. A high vaccination rate is never optimal. Under special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324931
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Economic costs and benefits of promoting healthy takeaway meals at workplace canteens
Jensen, Jørgen Dejgaard; Mørkbak, Morten Raun; … - 2011
Canteen Takeaway is a novel concept, which entails workplace canteens to utilise existing production capacity to supply packaged meals for employees to bring home. The concept has a potential to raise the average nutritional quality of employees' diets. The purpose of the study is to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100978
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Favourable cost-benefit in an early defibrillation program using dual dispatch of ambulance and fire services in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Sund, Björn; Svensson, Leif; Rosenqvist, Mårten; … - 2010
Aims: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is fatal without treatment and time to defibrillation is an extremely important factor in relation to survival. We performed a cost-benefit analysis of dual dispatch defibrillation by ambulance and fire services in the County of Stockholm,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654363
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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - 2010
The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of preferences which are not necessarily additively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753197