Society is increasingly focused on resilience to catastrophic events. Firms generally observe two forms of economic disruption, property damage and business interruption (BI). In contrast pre-event mitigation intended primarily avoid damage, firms can use a variety tactics once the disaster strikes reduce BI losses by improving stability continuity operations. This paper makes theoretical contr...

abstract health economic evaluation research plays an important role in selecting cost-effective interventions. the purpose of this study was to assess the quality of published articles in iranian journals related to economic evaluation in health care programs based on drummond’s checklist in terms of numbers, features, and quality. in the present review study, published articles (persian and e...

    Background: Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in Iran. However little is known about the economic burden associated with this cancer in Iran. The aim of this study was to estimate the economic burden of colorectal cancer in Iran in the year 2012.    Methods: We used the prevalence-based approach and estimated direct and indirect costs of all color...

Background To assess whether early health economic modeling helps to distinguish those healthcare innovations that are potentially cost-effective from those that are not potentially cost-effective. We will also study what information is retrieved from the health economic models to inform further development, research and implementation decisions.   Methods We performed s...

this paper undertakes a preliminary evaluation of economic impact of aqua-agriculture reservoirs in golestan province with different size classes. the method of information gathering in this research has been in method census from 39 of aqua-agriculture reservoirs in 4 classes (25 ha.) that information necessary to complete questionnaire has prepared. results showed that fish fingerling proprat...

The techniques and methods of developing cost models for respirators are discussed. Models are developed and implemented in this study for nineteen types of respirators in two major classes (air-purifying and supplied-air) and one LEV system. One respirator model is selected for detailed discussion from among the twenty models. The technical cost method is used in constructing the cost models f...

BACKGROUND The impact of diabetes on health-care expenditures has been increasingly recognized. To formulate an effective health planning and resource allocation, it is important to determine economic burden. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to assess the cost of illness (COI) for diabetic inpatients with or without complications. METHODOLOGY The study was conducted in the medicine ...