The economics of infectious disease
By: edited by Jennifer A. Roberts
Contributors: Roberts, Jennifer A
Series: Oxford medical publications
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Economic aspects; Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Costs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the economics of infectious disease / Jennifer A.  Roberts; title: Choosing the first-line drug for malaria treatment : how can cost-effectiveness analysis inform policy? / Catherine Goodman ... [et al.]; title: Economic issues related to antimicrobial resistance / Ramanan Laxminarayan; title: Economic evaluation of HIV prevention activities : dynamic challenges for cost-effectiveness analysis / Lilani Kumaranayake ... [et al.]; title: Modelling the cost-effectiveness of the new interventions : how can technological change be incorporated? / Richard Grieve; title: Complexity and the attribution of cost to hospital-acquired infection / Nicholas Graves and Diana Weinhold; title: Decision analysis of strategies to deal with non-compliance with TB treatment / Joa̋o G. Q. Costa ... [et al.]; title: The economic evaluation of HAI / Rosalind Plowman; title: The socio-economic burden of influenza : costs of illness and 'willingness to pay' in a publicly funded health care system / Punam Mangtani Amishi Shah; title: Willingness to pay for insecticide-treated mosquito nets in Surat, India / Mrigesh Bhatia and Julia Fox-Rushby; title: Disentangling value : assessing the benefits of containing antimicrobial resistance / Joanna Coast, Richard Smith and Michael Millar; title: Economics of animal health : implications for public health / Ana Riviere-Cinnamond; title: Risk assessment models, economic analysis and food safety policy / Tanya Roberts; title: Transaction cost economics and principal-agent theory : insights into investigations of outbreaks of infectious diseases / Azermeen Jamasji-Pavri; title: Governance arrangements for the control of infectious disease / Pauline Allen and Bronwyn Croxson; title: Evaluating US food safety regulations which use benefit and cost information / Jean Buzby, Felix Spinelli and Clark Nardinelli; title: Global governance of international public health : the role of international regulatory cooperation / Liliani Kumaranayake; title: Trade and infectious disease outbreaks : ensuring public health without comprising free trade / Vasant Narasimhan; title: Epilogue : application to contemporary challenges : avian 'flu and MRSA / Jennifer A. Roberts