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Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs

1489918787

1489918809

9781489918789

9781489918802

b544164

Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs

[Book]

edited by David R. Holtgrave.

Boston, MA

Springer US : Imprint : Springer

1998

(XXI, 281 pages)

AIDS prevention and mental health

1. An Overview of Economic Evaluation Methodologies and Selected Issues in Methods Standardization --;2. The Bernoulli-Process Model of HIV Transmission: Applications and Implications --;3. Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Interventions: A Primer --;4. Economic Evaluation of Primary HIV Prevention in Injection Drug Users --;5. Economic Evaluation of HIV Counseling and Testing Programs: The Influence of Program Goals on Evaluation --;6. Economic Evaluation of HIV Screening Interventions --;7. Changing Public Policy to Prevent HIV Transmission: The Role of Structural and Environmental Interventions --;8. The Cost-Effectiveness of Small Group and Community-Level Interventions --;9. The Cost-Effectiveness of the Components of a Comprehensive HIV Prevention Program: A Road Map of the Literature --;10. Resource Allocation and the Funding of HIV Prevention --;11. Economic Evaluation and HIV Prevention Decision Making: The State Perspective --;12. Adapting Cost Analytic Techniques to Local HIV Prevention Programs --;13. Economic Evaluation and HIV Prevention Community Planning: A Policy Analyst's Perspective --;14. Threshold Analysis of AIDS Outreach and Intervention --;15. A Few Reflections on the Practicality of Economic Evaluation Methods and Conclusions --;Appendix A.A Method to Measure the Costs of Counseling for HIV Prevention: Robin D. Gorsky --;Overview of a Cost Analysis --;Steps of a Cost Analysis --;Determination of Counseling Costs --;Choosing the Time Period --;Counting the Clients Served --;Inventorying the Resources Required --;Calculating the Cost Per Unit of Resource and the Number of Units Used --;Calculating the Total and Expected Cost of the Intervention --;Discussion --;Suggested Readings --;References --;Appendix B. Updates of Cost of Illness and Quality of Life Estimates for Use in Economic Evaluations of HIV Prevention Programs: David R. Holtgrave and Steven D. Pinkerton --;Methods --;Previous Estimates of Cost of Illness and Quality of Life --;Scenario Analysis --;Results --;Discussion --;References --;Appendix C. Cost-Effectiveness of a Community-Level HIV Risk Reduction Intervention: Steven D. Pinkerton, David R. Holtgrave, Wayne J. DiFranceisco, L. Yvonne Stevenson, and Jeffrey A. Kelly --;Description of Intervention --;Cost-Effectiveness --;Methods --;Retrospective Cost Estimation --;Mathematical Modeling --;Estimation of QALYs Saved --;Calculation of Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Ratios --;Threshold and Sensitivity Analyses --;Results --;Costs --;Infections Averted and QALYs Saved --;Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Ratios --;Threshold and Sensitivity Analyses --;Discussion --;References --;Appendix D. HIV Prevention and Cost-Effectiveness Resources on the World Wide Web: Mary E. Turk, Steven D. Pinkerton, David R. Holtgrave, and Heather Cecil --;General Interest HIV/AIDS Sites --;Sites with Prevention Resources and Information --;Sites for Economic, Population, and Health-Care Information and Data --;U.S. Government Sites for Information and Data (Not Listed Previously) --;Other Sites of Interest --;Sites for Relevant Journals.

If resources for HIV prevention efforts were truly unlimited, then this book would be en- tirely unnecessary. This was very well illustrated in the summer of 1997 when over 500 community-based organizations applied for a combined total of

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