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Health economics and European Renal Best Practice: is it time to bring health economics into evidence-based guideline production in Europe? Ghent University
The economics of preventive health care Ghent University
Empirical essays on the economics of inequality, education and health University of Antwerp
The topic of economic inequality has received increasing attention in recent decades. We examine the issue of economic inequality through several approaches. First, we develop a new method to decompose the change of income inequality into a forward-looking and a backward-looking progressivity component. This methodology allows evaluating the economic development process based on the viewpoints not only of the initially poor, but also of the ...
Health economics of vaccine preventable diseases in selected low and middle-income countries University of Antwerp
From a health economics perspective, this thesis presents evidence-based considerations for decision-making, including the quantification of the economic and disease burden, the economic evaluation of vaccine intervention strategies, and the analysis of determinants of the supply and demand for vaccines. More specifically, it contributes to the body of knowledge of the health economics of vaccine preventable diseases in low and middle-income ...
Health economics of dengue University of Antwerp
Dengue vaccines are currently in development and policymakers need appropriate economic studies to determine their potential financial and public health impact. We searched five databases (PubMed, EMBASE, LILAC, EconLit, and WHOLIS) to identify health economics studies of dengue. Forty-three manuscripts were identified that provided primary data: 32 report economic burden of dengue and nine are comparative economic analyses assessing various ...
The Health Economics of Automated Insulin Delivery Systems and the Potential Use of Time in Range in Diabetes Modeling: A Narrative Review KU Leuven
Intensive therapy with exogenous insulin is the treatment of choice for individuals living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and some with type 2 diabetes, alongside regular glucose monitoring. The development of systems allowing (semi-)automated insulin delivery (AID), by connecting glucose sensors with insulin pumps and algorithms, has revolutionized insulin therapy. Indeed, AID systems have demonstrated a proven impact on overall glucose control, as ...
Alexander Sutherland: A Forgotten Pioneer of Health Economics in Australia? KU Leuven University of Antwerp
© 2016 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. Here we highlight a neglected contribution of Alexander Sutherland (1852-1902) to Australian health economics. Sutherland read a paper on health insurance at the Melbourne Social Science Congress that was organised in the context of the International Exhibition of 1880-1881. He proposed combining life and health insurance into a single product and to ...