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This paper examines the economics of farm decisions to prevent and control infectious livestock disease. In the case of … diseases with costly control tolerating some level of disease is often rational to the producer. Public policy intervention is … based on future value and public good aspects of disease control which can lead to a discrepancy between private and public …
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the disease impact number (DIN) in health policy decision making. Design: Review of literature and calculation of PIN and … population impact of different interventions either within the same disease or in different diseases or conditions. The primary … relevant to the local setting. These need to be combined with local data on disease rates and population size. Depending on the …
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difference in value of current versus future health benefits, also has been criticized. The distribution of the global disease … sexually transmitted infections. The Global Burden of Disease study also has been criticized for estimating mortality and … disease burden for regions using incomplete and uncertain data. Including uncertain results, with uncertainty quantified to …
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A mixture model for long-term survivors has been adopted in various fields such as biostatistics and criminology where some individuals may never experience the type of failure under study. It is directly applicable in situations where the only information available from follow-up on individuals...
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In this paper, we obtain detailed data on road traffic crash (RTC) casualties, by severity, for each of the eight state and territory jurisdictions for Australia and use these to estimate and compare the economic impact of RTCs across these regions. We show that the annual cost of RTCs in...
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Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …
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Itinerant trading is the second major economic activity for women who constitute an important chain in the distribution of goods in West Africa. Historically they have played important roles in the political economy of Ghana. With the outbreak of AIDS these women, some of whom move far away from...
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Animal disease outbreaks either through deliberate terroristic act or accidental introductions present a serious … and accidental introduction events largely in the animal disease management setting. General economic issues and the … economic literature related to agricultural terrorism broadly and animal disease concerns specifically are reviewed. Basic …
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The goal of the study was to identify the ideal positioning strategy for the South African Apple and … combination most suited to take the South African Apple and Pear industry into the future. The research in this study included a … Apple and Pear industry. This strategy will grow demand and market share for South African apples and pears in the existing …
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The availability of a unique data set of financially distressed firms enabled this study to apply the dynamic capital structure adjustment model to a study of capital structure. In addition, the factors driving capital structure adjustment of financially distressed and of healthy firms were...
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