Prevention of non-communicable disease: best buys, wasted buys, and contestable buys

Social cost of tobacco-related disease and best buys.

Recent findings in social cost of tobacco for NSW For the financial year 1998–99, the social cost of tobacco use in NSW was estimated to be $6.6 billion. This figure includes the tangible costs of tobacco use (such as net labour costs to the workforce and household, health care costs and resources used in tobacco consumption) and intangible costs. The estimated intangible social costs of tobacc...

Can Consumers Calculate Best Buys ? NOEL CAPON DEANNA KUHN *

W ithin the cognitive development literature, a sizeable body of evidence has accumulated indicating that logical reasoning ability undergoes developmental transformations, and, furthermore, that not all individuals develop to the most advanced level. As a result, there is considerable variation in level of logical reasoning within an adult population (Neimark 1975; Papalia and DelVento Bielby ...

Nova Scotia hospital buys bulletproof vests.

Damage Response Protein Buys Time for Bacterial DNA Repair

Identifying "Best-Buys" In The Market Of Prepaid Mobile Telephony: An Application Of Imprecise Dea

Value-for-money is a widely used criterion to locate “best-buys” in a market of competitive products or services. The term “value” represents a composite measure of what a consumer gets from a product or service, while the term “money” is what the consumer pays for it. In the absence of individual preferences, the problem of identifying best-buys by the value-for-money criterion can be formulat...