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The effect of food taxes and subsidies on population health and health costs: a modelling study

The Lancet Public Health, 2020
Summary: Background: One possible policy response to the burden of diet-related disease is food taxes and subsidies, but the net health gains of these approaches are uncertain because of substitution effects between foods.
Tony Blakely, ProfPhD, Christine Cleghorn, PhD, Anja Mizdrak, PhD, Wilma Waterlander, PhD, Nhung Nghiem, PhD, Boyd Swinburn, ProfFNZCPHM, Nick Wilson, ProfMPH, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, ProfPhD   +7 more
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Public engagement in setting healthcare priorities: a ranking exercise in Cyprus

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2017
Background In countries such as Cyprus the financial crisis and the recession have severely affected the funding and priority setting of the health care system.
Antonis Farmakas, Mamas Theodorou, Petros Galanis, Georgios Karayiannis, Stefanos Ghobrial, Nikos Polyzos, Evridiki Papastavrou, Eirini Agapidaki, Kyriakos Souliotis   +8 more
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Financial risk of increasing the follow-up period of breast cancer treatment currently covered by the Social Protection System in Health in México

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2018
Background The objective of this work is to estimate the financial impact of increasing the monitoring period for breast cancer, which is financed by the Sistema de Protección Social en Salud (SPSS—Social Protection System in Health).
Román Rodríguez-Aguilar, José Antonio Marmolejo-Saucedo, Sonia Tavera-Martínez   +2 more
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Cost-effective interventions for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer: new results from WHO-CHOICE

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2018
Background Following the adoption of the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013–2020, an update to the Appendix 3 of the action plan was requested by Member States in 2016, endorsed by the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May ...
Ambinintsoa H. Ralaidovy, Chaitra Gopalappa, André Ilbawi, Carel Pretorius, Jeremy A. Lauer   +4 more
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Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) Technique: A Case Report Demonstrating Its Cost-Effectiveness in a Resource-Limited Setting

The Annals of African Surgery
Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) offers a cost-effective alternative to general anesthesia (GA) for wound debridement, improving patient safety, surgical accessibility, and cost-efficiency.
Charandeep Singh Juttla, Pankaj Gunvantray Jani   +1 more
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The cost-effectiveness of standalone HEPA filtration units for the prevention of airborne SARS CoV-2 transmission

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2022
Objective Airborne infection from aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 poses an economic challenge for businesses without existing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. The Environmental Protection Agency notes that standalone units may be used in
Zafar Zafari, Pedro M. de Oliveira, Savvas Gkantonas, Chinenye Ezeh, Peter Alexander Muennig   +4 more
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Model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of external beam radiation therapy for the treatment of localized prostate cancer: a systematic review

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2019
Background External beam radiotherapy is the recommended but expensive treatment option for localized prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men worldwide.
Solomon Kibret Abreha
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Methods for the estimation of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence cost-effectiveness threshold.

Health Technology Assessment, 2015
BACKGROUND Cost-effectiveness analysis involves the comparison of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of a new technology, which is more costly than existing alternatives, with the cost-effectiveness threshold.
K. Claxton, Steve Martin, M. Soares, N. Rice, E. Spackman, S. Hinde, N. Devlin, Peter C. Smith, M. Sculpher   +8 more
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Ultrasonic surgical and electrosurgical system (USES) with conventional ultrasonic scalpel (CUS) in gastrectomy: a retrospective cohort study

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2022
Background Harmonic ACE +7 Shears with Advanced Hemostasis is an upgraded ultrasonic device, an ultrasonic surgical and electrosurgical system (USES).
Changqing Jing, Yuezhi Chen, Liang Shang, Jinshen Wang, Guodong Lian, Feng Tian, Yixue Shao, Yingnan Zhao, Jianwei Xuan, Leping Li   +9 more
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The cost-effectiveness of bevacizumab, ranibizumab and aflibercept for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration—A cost-effectiveness analysis from a societal perspective

PLoS ONE, 2018
Background The discussion on the use of bevacizumab is still ongoing and often doctors are deterred from using bevacizumab due to legal or political issues.
F. Asten, Charlotte T. J. Michels, C. Hoyng, Gert Jan Wilt, B., Jeroen B. Klevering, M. Rovers, J. Grutters   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source