PARTIALLY WRONG? PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM AND THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN
PARTIALLY WRONG? PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM AND THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN
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DOI:
10.1002/hec.1339
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发表时间:
2008-11-01
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影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Smith, R. D.
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作者:
Beutels, P.;Edmunds, W. J.;Smith, R. D.
We argue that traditional health economic analysis is ill-equipped to estimate the cost effectiveness and cost benefit of interventions that aim at controlling and/or preventing public health emergencies of international concern (such as pandemic influenza or severe acute respiratory syndrome). The implicit assumption of partial equilibrium within both the health sector itself and - if it wider perspective is adopted - the economy its a whole would be violated by Such emergencies. We propose an alternative, with the specific aim of accounting for the behavioural changes and capacity problems that are expected to occur when Such an Outbreak strikes. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.