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Combating SARS and H1N1 : Insights and Lessons From Singapore’s Public Health Control Measures

Lai, Allen Yuhung; Tan, Teck Boon - 2012

Managing the outbreak of infectious diseases is a major public health imperative for the small island-state of Singapore. In this paper, we discuss and assess the Singaporean government’s public health measures to combat the 2003 SARS and the 2009 H1N1 pandemics. Crucially, the government...

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Vaccines for Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases : Towards Defining the Space of EU Public Health between Security Policy and a Transnational Market

Rizzi, Marco - 2018

The EU is continuously developing strategies, policies and regulations to confront pandemic and epidemic diseases. The actions of the EU in this field do not happen in a vacuum but are instead embedded in a complex international and transnational network. This article suggests the existence of a...

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Epidemic Disease and the State : Is There a Tradeoff between Public Health and Liberty?

Koyama, Mark - 2022

, it presents evidence that such a tradeoff can obtain in the short run but that, in the long run, the negative …

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Assessing National Public Health Law to Prevent Infectious Disease Outbreaks : Immunization Law as a Basis for Global Health Security

Ghedamu, Tsion; Meier, Benjamin Mason - 2019

Immunization plays a crucial role in global health security, preventing public health emergencies of international concern and protecting individuals from infectious disease outbreaks, yet these critical public health benefits are dependent on immunization law. Where public health law has become...

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Private Vaccination and Public Health : An Empirical Examination for U.S. Measles

Philipson, Tomas - 2008

between 1984 and 1990, the paper shows there is strong evidence that the prevalence of measles in the respondent's state of … against such diseases. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey on measles vaccinations in the United States … residence reduces the age in months at which the first measles vaccination occurs. The paper argues that the more prevention of …

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Economic Efficiency of Public Health Programmes for Control of HIV/AIDS Infections in Anambra State

Okafor, Samuel - 2016

The article focused on cost effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Nigeria. It was designed as a case study. Data were sourced from the Anambra State Agency for HIV/AIDS prevention in Awka and the centres for HIV/AIDS prevention established by NGOs in 2 Awka, Onitsha, and Nnewi. Data...

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Has Ebola Infected the Market : A Contagious Reaction to a (Media) Health Care Crisis?

Funck, Mary - 2019

We examine the impact of Ebola headline news days on media-highlighted stocks. An Ebola news day (negative or positive in nature) is associated with increased trading, higher share volume, higher dollar volume, and increased share turnover. OLS regressions on industry-specific portfolios reveal...

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Lives versus livelihoods in the middle ages : the impact of the plague on markets over 400 years

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2022

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No Panic in Pandemic : The Impact of Individual Choice on Public Health Policy and Vaccine Priority

Bai, Miao; Cui, Ying; Kong, Guangwen; Zhang, Anthony … - 2021

Infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19 pose significant public health threats and challenges worldwide due to their high transmissibility and potentially severe symptoms and complications. Although public health interventions such as social distancing and lockdown can slow the disease...

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Chapter 33 Economic epidemiology and infectious diseases

Philipson, Tomas - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1761-1799). 2000

Infectious diseases are is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and have been even more important historically. This paper reviews recent research in economic epidemiology. Specifically, it discusses the occurrence of infectious diseases and the effects of public health...

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