Economic Aspects

Epidemiology and economic aspects

Descriptive epidemiology The measures employed are incidence and prevalence. A first step in descriptive epidemiology is to obtain a valid definition of what constitutes a “case.” Quite surprisingly, up to now, no widely employed diagnostic criteria have been developed for clinical and population based studies of psoriasis. The first diagnosis made by a physician and the first appearance of ski...

Economic Asp 6 . Economic Aspects of Automation

The increasing diffusion of automation in all sectors of the industrial world gives rise to a deep modification of labor organization and requires a new approach to evaluate industrial systems efficiency, effectiveness, and economic convenience. Until now, the evaluation tools and methods at disposal of industrial managers are rare and even complex. Easy-to-use criteria, possibly based on robus...

Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy

Economic aspects of rare diseases.

Economic problems related to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases are presented paying particular attention to the costs of financing treatment, including the issue of its refund, which is a fundamental and difficult to solve economic problem of the health care system. Rare diseases, despite the low frequency of occurrence, together cover a large group of diseases being a se...

Economic aspects of Parkinson’s disease