Quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs / edited by Edward H. Kaplan and Ron Brookmeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Edward Harris.

Contributor:

Brookmeyer, Ron.

Series:

Yale ISPS series

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. Yale ISPS series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Congresses.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention.

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Government policy--Evaluation--Congresses.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Government policy.

Evaluation.

Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.

Medical Subjects:

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control.

Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2002]

Contents:

Overview of HIV prevention programs in developing countries / Michael H. Merson and Julia M. Dayton

Implications of economic evaluations for national HIV prevention policy makers / David R. Holtgrave and Steven D. Pinkerton

Statistical issues in HIV prevention / Ron Brookmeyer

Epidemiological issues in the evaluation of HIV prevention programs / Nancy S. Padian and Stephen C. Shiboski

Difficult choices, urgent needs: optimal investment in HIV prevention programs / Margaret L. Brandeau

Methadone treatment as HIV prevention: cost-effectiveness analysis / Harold Pollack

Costs and benefits of imperfect HIV vaccines: implications for vaccine development and use / Douglas K. Owens, Donna M. Edwards, and Ross D. Shachter

Harm-reduction in Rome: a model-based evaluation of its impact on the HIV-1 epidemic / Massimo Arcà, Teresa Spadea, Giulia Cesaroni, Marina Davoli, Annette D. Verster, and Carlo A. Perucci

Evaluating Israel's Ethiopian blood ban / Edward H. Kaplan

Feedubg strategies for children of HIV-infected mothers: modeling the trade-off between HIV infection and non-HIV mortality / James G. Kahn, Elliot Marseille, and Joseph Saba

Design of HIV trials for estimating external effects / Thomas Philipson

Estimation of vaccine efficacy for prophylactic HIV vaccines / Ira M. Longini, Jr., Michael G. Hudgens, and M. Elizabeth Halloran

Health policy modeling: epidemic control, HIV vaccines, and risky behavior / Sally Blower,m Katia Koelle, and John Mills

Development and validation of a serologic testing algorithm for recent HIV seroconversion / Glen A. Satten, Robert S. Janssen, Susan Stramer, and Michael P. Busch

Issues in quantitative evaluation of epidemiologic evidence for temporal variability of HIV infectivity / Stephen C. Shiboski and Nancy S. Padian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300087519

OCLC:

46991781