Applying the Lorenz curve to disease risk to optimize health benefits under cost constraints
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Applying the Lorenz curve to disease risk to optimize health benefits under cost constraints.
This paper shows how the Lorenz curve can be used, together with models of disease risk, to allocate scarce resources so as to optimize a health benefit. Consider the example of breast cancer mortality. If there were sufficient resources to provide all women with mammograms, a certain maximal number of lives could be saved. Suppose, however, that only a fraction of that amount of money is avail...
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistics and Its Interface
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1938-7989,1938-7997
DOI: 10.4310/sii.2009.v2.n2.a1