Costs and cost-effectiveness of youth smoking prevention policies across seven European countries

Cost-effectiveness of Smoking Policies

Workplace Smoking Policies Approximately 30 percent of all private sector workplaces have a formal smoking policy, while a majority of Americans support smoking policies. Governments at all levels and the private sector are increasingly adopting or strengthening such policies and there is no evidence of retrenchment. In addition, the protection of nonsmokers, who account for 67 percent of the p...

Innovativity: a Comparison across Seven European Countries

An exploratory study of the cost-effectiveness of orthodontic care in seven European countries

This study investigated the orthodontic treatment of 429 consecutive patients [172 male (40.1 per cent) and 257 female (59.9 per cent)] carried out by 10 orthodontic specialist practitioners in seven European countries [two in the Czech Republic (A and B), two in Germany (A and B), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, and Netherlands, and two in Slovenia (A and B)]. The median age of the patients at the s...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Scaling up integrated prevention campaigns for global health: costs and cost-effectiveness in 70 countries

OBJECTIVE This study estimated the health impact, cost and cost-effectiveness of an integrated prevention campaign (IPC) focused on diarrhoea, malaria and HIV in 70 countries ranked by per capita disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) burden for the three diseases. METHODS We constructed a deterministic cost-effectiveness model portraying an IPC combining counselling and testing, cotrimoxazole ...