Increasingly, the assessment of health prevention policies is evaluated through willingness to pay (wtp) surveys. When the evaluation deals with policies with a public dimension, the individual?'s stated wtp can reflect an altruistic component, which may alter the results of the economic...

This paper concerns the difficulty of taking into account long term health effects of prevention policies in an economic valuation. The proposed methodology estimates the delay between the implementation of a policy and the achievement of all of the expected mortality-related health benefits....

Criteria for initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatments (haart) in hiv-infected patients remain a matter of debate world-wide because short-term benefits have to be balanced with costs of these therapies, and restrictions placed on future treatment options if resistant viral strains...

In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework for exploring the consequences of neighborhood informational effects ?identified as role models? so as to deduce the urban configuration. Specifically, we have developed an overlapping generations model of community formation. When young, an...