Cost-effectiveness of integrated routine offering of prenatal HIV and syphilis screening in China

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 103-110

  Owusu Edusei, Kwame ^a   Tao, Guoyu ^a   Gift, Thomas L ^a   Wang, Ailing ^b   Wang, Linhong ^b   Tun, Ye ^c   Wei, Xiaoyu ^c   Wang, Liming ^c   Fuller, Serena ^c,d   Kamb, Mary L ^a   Bulterys, Marc ^a,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b National Center for Women's and Children's Health   (China)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Association of Schools of Public Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDUCED ABORTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL INFECTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; CHINA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYPHILIS;

EID: 84892971608     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000085     Document Type: Article

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