As public accountability has increased and resources have become scarcer, public health,
like clinical medicine, has been forced to re-examine the benefits and costs of its activities. …

To assess the total medical costs and productivity losses associated with the 1993 waterborne
outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including the average cost per …

Context.—Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in children, and a live, oral
vaccine may soon be licensed for prevention.Objective.—To estimate the economic impact …

The authors test the hypotheses that parameters of advertising sensitivity for adolescents are
significant and perhaps larger than those for adults. Cigarette brand shares of advertising …

Background: Many recommended clinical preventive services are delivered at low rates.
Decision-makers who wish to improve delivery rates, but face competing demands for finite …

The application of cost-effectiveness analysis to health care has been the subject of previous
reviews. We address the use of economic evaluation methods in public health, including …

In assigning health priorities, skin diseases are sometimes thought of, in planning terms, as
small-time players in the global league of illness compared with diseases that cause …

Methods We analyzed 4 years of data (2011–2014) from the National Health Interview Survey
and 3 years of data (2013–2015) from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; we used 2-…

Methods The Systematic Screening and Assessment Method was used to conduct a
landscape assessment of US health care entity–based programs that screen patients for food …

Background Because lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination efforts are hampered by a dearth
of economic information about the cost of mass drug administration (MDA) programs (using …