Cost-effectiveness of scaling up mass drug administration for the control of soil-transmitted helminths: A comparison of cost function and constant costs analyses

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 838-846

  Turner, Hugo C ^a,b   Truscott, James E ^a,b   Fleming, Fiona M ^a,b   Hollingsworth, T Déirdre ^c,d   Brooker, Simon J ^e   Anderson, Roy M ^a  

^a London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; SOIL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTANT COST ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST FUNCTION ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HELMINTHIASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SCHOOL CHILD; TROPICAL DISEASE; UGANDA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COSTS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOIL;

EID: 84958559383     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00268-6     Document Type: Article

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