Introduction: Today, the infectious wastes of hospitals are considered as a public health problem. Considering the huge amounts of hazardous wastes and the disadvantages of incinerators, we need to investigate the non-combustible devices involved in biochemical treatment. This study was carried out with the aim of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of infectious wastes devices. Materials and Me...

A retrospective survey, based on a standardized questionnaire sent to qualified public health experts in tuberculosis in 50 European countries, was carried out to evaluate the following: concordance between national vaccination programmes and WHO recommendations on BCG vaccination for prevention of tuberculosis; relation between BCG vaccination and revaccination policy and the tuberculosis epid...

Methods of economic evaluation, especially cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis, are widely used to examine new healthcare technologies. However, few economic evaluations of pharmacogenomics have been conducted, and pharmacogenomic researchers may be unfamiliar with how to review or conduct these analyses. This review provides an overview of the methods of economic evaluation a...

human papilloma virus (hpv) vaccine recently has been added to the iran drug list, decision makers need information beyond that available from rcts to recommend funding for this vaccination program to add it to the national immunization program in iran. modeling and economic studies have addressed some of those information needs in foreign countries. in order to determine the long term benefit ...

These modes of analysis [cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit] are neither good for nothing nor good for everything, and one cannot speak of them as wholly good or bad. It is much more useful to try to specify some conditions under which they would or would not be helpful for various purposes.

background: anemia is the most common blood disorder observed in vulnerable groups and affects their efficiency in their everyday activities. possible complications of the disease may be reduced or prevented by screening of patients. screening programs impose certain costs upon the health system, which may offset their positive effects. whether the positive impacts of screening outweigh its cos...

breast cancer is the leading cause of malignancy among women. screening using mammography is proposed as an effective intervention for reducing early deaths due to breast cancer. we conducted a systematic review to assess the cost-effectiveness of such screening programs. we searched medline, scopus and google scholar and complemented it by other searches using sensitive search terms from 1993-...

introduction: intraoperative radiation therapy device (iort) is one of the several options for partial breast irradiation. iort is sent to the tumor bed during surgery and can be replaced with conventional standard therapy (ebrt). the aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of iort machine compared with ebrt and to determine the dominant option in terms of the cost-effect...

Finding better mechanisms to enable differential pricing that reflects different degrees of willingness to pay across countries with different income levels is an important challenge for drug manufacturers and policy makers. Drug prices must be high enough to meet manufacturers' needs--covering costs and ensuring adequate investment in research and development, as well as producing a profit--bu...