Public health departments have limited evidence to understand and analyze the costs and benefits of different health programs, including tuberculosis control and prevention programs. The study by Miller et. al addresses this challenge to estimate costs and benefits of tuberculosis prevention programs in Texas and identify cost-effective diagnostic and treatment combinations, thereby improving t...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the first cause of mortality due to nosocomial infections in the intensive care unit. Its incidence ranges from 9% to 67% of patients on mechanical ventilation. Risk factors are multiple and are associated with prolonged stays in hospital and intensive care units. Additional costs for each episode of VAP range from 9,000 euro to 31,000 euro. Thus, its pr...

Presents selected information sources within the following categories: (1) activity-based costing; (2) bibliographies, curricula, and definition of terms; (3) corporate environmental accounting; (4) federal government, military and logistics applications; (5) financial and economic analysis of pollution prevention projects; (6) national environmental accounting; (7) pollution prevention; and (8...

The aim of the present paper is to evaluate the economic effectiveness of public control and prevention strategies to tackle two recent epidemics in Greece. Results from the implementation of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) are presented for; a) prevention strategy against the 2010 West Nile Virus outbreak in the Region of Central Macedonia and b) control expen...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the efficiency of a school-based smoking prevention program in Barcelona (PASE.bcn program). METHODS A cost-benefit analysis was performed. As costs we included those corresponding to the design and implementation of the program. As benefits we considered healthcare costs and the productivity losses avoided. This study was conducted from a societal perspective, and the es...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of a worksite-based naturopathic (individualized lifestyle counseling and nutritional medicine) approach to primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). METHODS Economic evaluation alongside a pragmatic, multi-worksite, randomized controlled trial comparing enhanced usual care (EUC; usual care plus biometric screening) to the addition of a ...

BACKGROUND Our study objectives were to evaluate the medical economics of cervical cancer prevention and thereby contribute to cancer care policy decisions in Japan. METHODS Model creation: we created presence- absence models for prevention by designating human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for primary prevention of cervical cancer. Cost classification and cost estimates: we divided the co...

according to importance of cirrhosis of the liver and the lack of information about the economic burden of the disease, we performed this study to estimate the economic burden of liver cirrhosis in iran in 2011.the cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, has been used. both direct and indirect costs have been estimated using a prevalence approach and bottom-up method. the inp...