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David R. Holtgrave
Epidemiology
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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Assessing the Cost-effectiveness of Alternative Approaches to HIV Prevention
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The Economics of HIV Primary Prevention
Every hour, an average of approximately five people in the United States become infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 If the US government decided to open a trust fund and place in it enough money to...
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The Cost-Effectiveness of Small Group and Community-Level Interventions
In February 1997, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) convened a consensus development conference on interventions to prevent HIV infection. At this conference, a panel composed of AIDS activists and estee...
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A Few Reflections on the Practicality of Economic Evaluation Methods and Conclusions
The third section of this book described some key challenges encountered when decision makers attempt to use economic evaluations of HIV prevention programs in their resource allocation decision making. Howeve...
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The Cost-Effectiveness of the Components of a Comprehensive HIV Prevention Program
No locale in the United States has an HIV prevention program that consists of just one type of service. The citizens of any geographic area have a wide variety of HIV prevention needs, and an array of services...
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An Overview of Economic Evaluation Methodologies and Selected Issues in Methods Standardization
Economic evaluations are becoming increasingly important tools for assisting in health services decision making. Program managers and other decision makers often need to compare different programs and set prio...
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Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Interventions
As demonstrated in a number of chapters in this book,1 HIV prevention interventions can be highly cost-effective for society. In many instances, HIV prevention is actually cost-saving, meaning that the cost of th...
