The Economics of Infectious Disease

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ISBN: 9780198516224 | 0198516223
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/31/2006

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Presents contribution economists can make to management and control of infectious diseases. Examines economic evaluation of specific diseases, governance and control of outbreaks, risk models for food safety, and more. For policy makers and physicians. Softcover. DNLM: Communicable Disease Control - economics.

Foreword

Barry Cookson

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction to the economics of infectious disease

(22)

Jennifer A. Roberts

2 Choosing the first-line drug for malaria treatment—how can cost-effectiveness analysis inform policy?

(26)

Catherine Goodman, Salim Abdulla, Paul Coleman, Godfrey Mubyazi, Nassor Kikumbih, Tuoyo Okorosobo and Anne Mills

3 Economic issues related to antimicrobial resistance

(16)

Ramanan Laxminarayan

4 Economic evaluation of HIV prevention activities: dynamic challenges for cost-effectiveness analysis

(20)

Lilani Kumaranayake, Charlotte Watts, Peter Vickerman and Fern Terris-Prestholt

5 Modelling the cost-effectiveness of the new interventions: how can technological change be incorporated?

(18)

Richard Grieve

6 Complexity and the attribution of cost to hospital-acquired infection

103

(14)

Nicholas Graves and Diana Weinhold

7 Decision analysis of strategies to deal with non-compliance with TB treatment

117

(12)

João G Q Costa, Laura C Rodrigues, Andreia C Santos and Mauricio L Barreto

8 The economic evaluation of HAI

129

(30)

Rosalind Plowman

9 The socio-economic burden of influenza: costs of illness and 'willingness to pay' in a publicly funded health care system

159

(22)

Punam Mangtani and Amishi Shah

10 Willingness to pay for insecticide-treated mosquito nets in Surat, India

181

(20)

Mrigesh Bhatia and Julia Fox-Rushby

11 Disentangling value: assessing the benefits of containing antimicrobial resistance

201

(14)

Joanna Coast, Richard Smith and Michael Millar

12 Economics of animal health: implications for public health

215

(22)

Ana Riviere-Cinnamond

13 Risk assessment models, economic analysis and food safety policy

237

(24)

Tanya Roberts

14 Transaction cost economics and principal—agent theory: insights into investigations of outbreaks of infectious diseases

261

(20)

Azermeen Jamasji-Pavri

15 Governance arrangements for the control of infectious disease

281

(18)

Pauline Allen and Bronwyn Croxson

16 Evaluating US food safety regulations which use benefit and cost information

299

(28)

Jean Buzby, Felix Spinelli and Clark Nardinelli

17 Global governance of international public health: the role of international regulatory cooperation

327

(14)

Lilani Kumaranayake

18 Trade and infectious disease outbreaks: ensuring public health without compromising free trade

341

(14)

Vasant Narasimhan

19 Epilogue: Application to contemporary challenges: Avian 'flu and MRSA

355

(16)

Jennifer A. Roberts

Index

371

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