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. Brazil's AIDS treatment program has been cited widely as the developing world's largest and most successful AIDS treatment …Background: Little is known about the long-term drug costs associated with treating AIDS in developing countries … program. The program guarantees free access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for all people living with HIV/AIDS …
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. The model built on the nonlinear Almost Ideal Demand Systems (AIDS) and structural first-order conditions is developed. By …
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-difference version of the almost ideal demand system (AIDS). Expenditure elasticity results indicate that if U.S. total expenditures on …
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In many countries, consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is below recommendedlevels. We quantify the economic and health effects of F&V stamp policy designed for low income consumers. The analysis combined two models: an economic model which predictshow F&V consumption is affected by a...
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Background: Cost-effectiveness outcomes collected in multinational health economic studies may vary across countries and geographic areas due to numerous clinical and socioeconomic factors. The between-country variability poses the question of generalizability of the cost-effectiveness...
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Objective:  The Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommended the compilation of a catalog of health state utility weights for use in cost-utility analyses (CUAs), and has given methodological recommendations. This study presents an update, through 2001, to our current...
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Objective: To evaluate whether the introduction of a national, co-ordinated screening program using the faecal occult blood test represents 'value-for-money' from the perspective of the Australian Government as third-party funder. Methods: The annual equivalent costs and consequences of a...
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Background: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the second largest cause of death in Thailand in 2004-2005 and ranked second in terms of disability-adjusted life years lost in 1999. Alcohol is an important contributing factor of road traffic crashes that cause injuries, disabilities and deaths....
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The presentation of the results of uncertainty analysis in cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) in the literature has been relatively academic with little attention paid to the question of how decision-makers should interpret the information particularly when confidence intervals overlap. This...
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