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This article is published in Medizinische Monatsschrift für Pharmazeuten.The article was published on 2004-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 844 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Total absorption costing & Relevant cost.read more
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A Comparison of Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Practice: Divergent Policy Practices in Sweden
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TL;DR: The need of a harmonized procedure for economic evaluations in the public sector in order to reduce the risk of inefficient allocations purely due to different applications of the methods is discussed.
Confronting “Death on Wheels” - Making Roads Safe in Europe and Central Asia: Establishing Multisectoral Partnerships to Address a Silent Epidemic
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the opportunities and impediments in targeting highway safety in the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region, and present the effectiveness of countermeasures that nations around the world have undertaken to improve highway safety.
Australia’s aged care system: assessing the views and preferences of the general public for quality of care and future funding
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Fair innings? The utilitarian and prioritarian value of risk reduction over a whole lifetime.
TL;DR: It is shown that the prioritarian SVRR provides a rigorous basis in economic theory for the “fair innings” concept, proposed in the public health literature: as between an older individual and a similarly situated younger individual, a risk reduction for the younger individual is accorded greater social weight even if the gains to expected lifetime utility are equal.
Promoting green urban development in Africa : enhancing the relationship between urbanization, environmental assets, and ecosystem services
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the potential costs and benefits of green urban development approach to address some of the main environmental issues described above, and explore the potential tradeoffs between different types of interventions, with an emphasis on assessing the desirable balance between engineered interventions and the conservation of natural open space areas.
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