Economics of preventing premature mortality and impaired cognitive development in children through home-fortification: A health policy perspective

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 303-311

  Sharieff, Waseem ^a,b   Zlotkin, Stanley H ^a,c   Ungar, Wendy J ^a,d   Feldman, Brian ^a,d   Krahn, Murray D ^a,e   Tomlinson, George ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^f TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost benefit; Cost effectiveness; Diarrhea; Iron deficiency; Markov model; Micronutrients; Monte Carlo simulation; Sprinkles

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; EARNINGS; HEALTH; HEMOGLOBIN; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; IRON; MILITARY ENGINEERING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEIGHT CONTROL; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; CHILD MORTALITY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COST BENEFITS; COST ESTIMATING; EFFECT OF ZINC(II); EXCHANGE RATES; HEALTH POLICIES; INCREMENTAL COSTS; INTERNATIONAL (CO); NEW STRATEGY; PAKISTAN; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PURCHASING POWER PARITY (PPP); RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PLACEBO; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT MORTALITY; IRON; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; ZINC;

EID: 46749129394     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: 14716348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266462308080409     Document Type: Article

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