Background: Tobacco is a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality, with considerable economic burden. The purpose this systematic review was to summarize the evidence on burden tobacco use by searching national international databases so as generate useful information about costs globally. Methods: A search conducted in Scopus, PubMed, EMBASE, ProQuest, Web Science (ISI) identify rele...

The increasing death toll from drug-resistant falciparum malaria is cause for international concern. In 2002, the US Agency for International Development commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to recommend global actions to ensure the broadest possible access to new, effective antimalarial treatments. In a report issued in 2004, the IOM Committee on Economics of Antimalarial Drugs recomme...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the net benefit of the Gambian Eye Care Program (GECP) using a limited definition of benefits from a societal perspective. METHODS The number of cases of blindness avoided was modeled using population projections, population-based blindness survey estimates from 1986 and 1996, and reported blindness-related mortality differences. Benefits were measured as lifetime produc...

This study, published in October 2009 by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), aimed to estimate the essential costs of veterinary prevention systems in sample countries and to develop economic indicators for the veterinary performance evaluation provided by the OIE Tool for the Evaluation of Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS Tool). Full sets of data were collected from seven de...

The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments require that water utilities send quality reports to customers. We test whether receiving WQRs of health violations increases purchases of bottled water. With new data, we find a larger response than previous studies, and, unlike previous studies, we disaggregate the intensive and extensive margins of demand changes. We find a water quality violation ...