BACKGROUND Over two thirds of women who need contraception in Uganda lack access to modern effective methods. This study was conducted to estimate the potential cost-effectiveness of achieving universal access to modern contraceptives in Uganda by implementing a hypothetical new contraceptive program (NCP) from both societal and governmental (Ministry of Health (MoH)) perspectives. METHODOLOG...

Aim: Cancer is one of the leading causes premature death in world. However, economic burden cancer at country level unknown. This study aims to estimate loss disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due between 1990-2019 Turkey. Methods: The value DALYs has been estimated using human capital approach. used and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita Results: Total 1990 was as $4,783,030,609 ...

Climate change adaptation is receiving ever more attention in the literature and practice. Since available funds are not meeting needs, question of how to allocate scarce resources becomes pressing. Universal metrics promise facilitate allocation process ex ante evaluation projects post. Two such have been proposed recently: Saved Wealth (SW), measured terms money, Health (SH), gauged disabilit...

Purpose: The number of clinical trials conducted by the industry has increased significantly for period 2014-2016. They have produced advances in disease prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation many diseases. This was main reason to carry a study on association between certain demographic indexes European economic area. Proving correlation those two variables could lead additional research pu...

BACKGROUND Reliable and comparable analysis of risks to health is key for preventing disease and injury. Causal attribution of morbidity and mortality to risk factors has traditionally been in the context of individual risk factors, often in a limited number of settings, restricting comparability. Our aim was to estimate the contributions of selected major risk factors to global and regional bu...

Background Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) affects millions of children across Asia annually, leading to an increase in implemented control policies such as surveillance, isolation and social distancing in affected jurisdictions. However, limited knowledge of disease burden and severity causes difficulty in policy optimisation as the associated economic cost cannot be easily estimated. We u...

Abstract Objectives Using dynamic transmission models we evaluated the health and cost outcomes of adding acellular pertussis (aP) vaccination pregnant women to infant in three Brazilian states that represent different socioeconomic conditions. The primary objective was determine whether same model structure could be used disease dynamics differing Methods We tested structures (SIR, SIRS, SIRSI...