Imperial College London
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Professor Sir Roy Anderson FRS, FMedSci

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
 
 
 
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Contact

 

roy.anderson Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Clare Mylchreest +44 (0)7766 331 301

 
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Location

 

LG35Norfolk PlaceSt Mary's Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Turner:2018:cid/cix1001,
author = {Turner, HC and Toor, J and Hollingsworth, TD and Anderson, RM},
doi = {cid/cix1001},
journal = {Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America},
pages = {1298--1303},
title = {Economic Evaluations of Mass Drug Administration: The Importance of Economies of Scale and Scope.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix1001},
volume = {66},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - It is recognized that changing the current approaches for the control of the neglected tropical diseases will be needed to reach the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2020 goals. Consequently, it is important that economic evaluations of the alternative approaches are conducted. A vital component of such evaluations is the issue of how the intervention's costs should be incorporated. We discuss this issue-focusing on mass drug administration. We argue that the common approach of assuming an intervention's cost per treatment is constant, regardless of the number of individuals treated, is a misleading way to consider the delivery costs of mass drug administration due to the occurrence of economies/diseconomies of scale and scope. Greater care and consideration are required when the costs are incorporated into such analyses. Without this, these economic evaluations could potentially lead to incorrect policy recommendations.
AU  - Turner,HC
AU  - Toor,J
AU  - Hollingsworth,TD
AU  - Anderson,RM
DO  - cid/cix1001
EP  - 1303
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1058-4838
SP  - 1298
TI  - Economic Evaluations of Mass Drug Administration: The Importance of Economies of Scale and Scope.
T2  - Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix1001
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/60935
VL  - 66
ER  -
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