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OrganizationWeb Portal 2024INFORMS
INFORMS is the leading international association for Operations Research & Analytics professionals. INFORMS publishes 16 …
INFORMS is the leading international association for Operations Research & Analytics professionals. INFORMS publishes 16 journals on topics ranging from decision analysis to management and marketing sciences and the INFORMS Resource Center offers information about O.R. and Analytics educational programs and material for students, faculty and others and offers a video library with on-demand access to key presentations from INFORMS meetings and conferences. They also offer a publication library bringing together recent publications across all of their…
Operations Research | Health/Medicine | Global | Business/Industry | Climate/Environment | Energy/Engineering | Government/Law | Science/Technology -
OrganizationWeb Portal 2024Results for Development
Results for Development (R4D) was founded in 2008, with a mission to create self-sustaining systems …
Results for Development (R4D) was founded in 2008, with a mission to create self-sustaining systems that support health, educated people, while ensuring that local change agents are in the driver’s seat, and that knowledge is transformed into action. Their work supports sustainable progress in health, education and nutrition, and puts data users at the center of all efforts. They develop tools - including dashboards, scorecards and performance metrics - in a way that is designed to solve practical…
Technology Assessment | Health/Medicine | Global | Priority Setting/Ethics | Costing Methods | Evidence Synthesis | Infectious Diseases | Child/Nutrition | Health Systems | Climate/Environment | Education/Labor -
ReportPublication 2016Cost-Effectiveness of Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders
This report chapter reviews the available cost-effectiveness evidence for the different levels and underpinning strategies of …
This report chapter reviews the available cost-effectiveness evidence for the different levels and underpinning strategies of the mental health care system, with a focus on information generated in or for lower and middle income countries. First, the chapter reviews the economic evidence for mental health prevention and protection at the population and community levels of the health and welfare system, including legislative, regulatory, and informational measures at the public policy level (population platform), as well as…
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Health/Medicine | Global | Evidence Synthesis | Chronic Disease/Risk | Health Systems -
ReportPublication 2015Chapter 4: Cervical Cancer
This chapter focuses on the possibility of primary prevention of cervical cancer as a result …
This chapter focuses on the possibility of primary prevention of cervical cancer as a result of the introduction of two commercially available vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV). Few low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have initiated or sustained cytology-based cervical cancer prevention programs, and these countries experience very high incidence and mortality rates. Fortunately, alternative strategies to prevent cervical cancer have been investigated and extensively evaluated in these settings. The authors report findings from cost-effectiveness analyses…
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Health/Medicine | Global | Mathematical Models | Infectious Diseases | Chronic Disease/Risk | Health Systems | Clinical Care | Science/Technology