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| Damian WalkerSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Economics methods in Cochrane systematic reviews of health promotion and public health related interventionsIan Shemilt
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
BMC Med Res Methodol 6:55. 2006....- Economic evaluation of parasitic diseases: a critique of the internal and external validity of published studiesD Walker
Health Economics and Financing Programme, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Trop Med Int Health 5:237-49. 2000.... - The economics of TB control in developing countriesDamian Walker
Health Economics, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Expert Opin Pharmacother 4:359-68. 2003..This article will look at each of these issues, and in particular their costs, in turn, and suggest areas in which economics can help to develop solutions to them... - Cost and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in developing countries: is there an evidence base?Damian Walker
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Health Policy Plan 18:4-17. 2003.... - Forgotten but not gone: the continuing scourge of congenital syphilisDamian G Walker
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet Infect Dis 2:432-6. 2002..A task-force approach to defining the most appropriate interventions together with support for some research should be a priority for support under the Global Health Fund... - An economic analysis of midwifery training programmes in South Kalimantan, IndonesiaDamian Walker
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
Bull World Health Organ 80:47-55. 2002..It was not clear whether the training programmes were more or less cost-effective than other safe motherhood interventions because the nature of the outcome measures hindered comparison... - Allowing for differential timing in cost analyses: discounting and annualizationDamian Walker
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Health Policy Plan 17:112-8. 2002..This paper presents methods to both discount and annualize costs, and discusses rules-of-thumb to decide when to make these adjustments... - Economic analysis of tuberculosis diagnostic tests in disease control: how can it be modelled and what additional information is needed?D Walker
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 5:1099-108. 2001..Finally, the article identifies economic and epidemiological factors that are likely to change results in different settings... - How do we determine whether community health workers are cost-effective? Some core methodological issuesDamian G Walker
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
J Community Health 30:221-9. 2005..Therefore, this paper aims to examine the means by which economic methods can be extended to provide evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of CHWs in developing countries... - Economic evaluation of communicable disease interventions in developing countries: a critical review of the published literatureD Walker
Health Economics and Financing Programme, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Health Econ 9:681-98. 2000.... - The quality of care by private practitioners for sexually transmitted diseases in UgandaD Walker
Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Health Policy Plan 16:35-40. 2001..001); and are more likely to prescribe appropriate drugs 82% of the time compared with 27%, a mean difference of 55% (p < 0.001). This small study suggests that PSPs can help improve the management of STDs... - Cost and cost-effectiveness guidelines: which ones to use?D Walker
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Health Policy Plan 16:113-21. 2001..Finally, it compares and discusses the appropriate uses and limitations of the guidelines, with particular emphasis on those developed for applications in developing countries... - Allowing for uncertainty in economic evaluations: qualitative sensitivity analysisD Walker
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Health Policy Plan 16:435-43. 2001..But in the meantime, an increase in the number of evaluators undertaking a wider range of sensitivity analysis would improve the quality of evidence for, and outcomes of, decision-making... - Are vaccination sites in Bangladesh scale efficient?Vivian Valdmanis
Health Economics and Financing Program, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 19:692-7. 2003..The overall aim of this study is to discern whether and to what degree vaccination sites exhibit constant returns to scale... - The cost-effectiveness of HIV preventive measures among injecting drug users in Svetlogorsk, BelarusLilani Kumaranayake
HIVTools Research Group, Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Addiction 99:1565-76. 2004..Economic evaluation methods were adapted to consider the effect of an 8-month financing gap that negatively impacted on project implementation... - Cost-effectiveness of water quality interventions for preventing diarrhoeal disease in developing countriesThomas Clasen
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
J Water Health 5:599-608. 2007..In addition to cost-effectiveness, choices among water quality interventions must be guided by local conditions, user preferences, potential for cost recovery from beneficiaries and other factors... - Introducing hepatitis B virus vaccine into the Expanded Programme on Immunization in Bangladesh: a proposed method to evaluate whether the existing infrastructure has the capacityAnnalisa Trama
Health Services Systems Research, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
J Health Popul Nutr 23:25-33. 2005..By measuring the capacity of capital equipment, the study has illustrated that the measurement of resource-use rates provides useful information about the burden that a new vaccine places on the EPI... - Variation in the costs of delivering routine immunization services in PeruD Walker
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, England
Bull World Health Organ 82:676-82. 2004..This paper presents information on the variations in costs of delivering routine immunization services in three diverse districts of Peru: Ayacucho (a mountainous area), San Martin (a jungle area) and Lima (a coastal area)... - Cost data for individual patients included in clinical studies: no amount of statistical analysis can compensate for inadequate costing methodsNicholas Graves
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK
Health Econ 11:735-9. 2002..For the results of clinical studies to be valid both cost methods and the methods used for the statistical analysis of cost data should be of a high quality... - Cost and unit cost calculations using step-down accountingLesong Conteh
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Health Policy Plan 19:127-35. 2004..Therefore, this paper, using a worked example, illustrates the different steps involved to generate cost and unit costs for a small hospital... - Surviving the impact of HIV-related illness in the Zambian business sectorLorna Guinness
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
AIDS Patient Care STDS 17:353-63. 2003..This would foster the development of more appropriate responses to the epidemic in Zambia and the region as a whole... - A factorial-design cluster randomised controlled trial investigating the cost-effectiveness of a nutrition supplement and an exercise programme on pneumonia incidence, walking capacity and body mass index in older people living in Santiago, Chile: the CENAlan D Dangour
Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Nutr J 6:14. 2007..trial registration: isrctn48153354... - BSR & BHPR, BOA, RCGP and BSAC guidelines for management of the hot swollen joint in adultsG Coakley
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, London, UK
Rheumatology (Oxford) 45:1039-41. 2006 - Introduction of Hib vaccine into national immunization programmes: a descriptive analysis of global trendsIsabelle A Rossi
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Vaccine 25:7075-80. 2007.... - Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workersAndy Haines
Director s office, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Lancet 369:2121-31. 2007..The introduction of large-scale programmes for community health workers requires evaluation to document the impact on child survival and cost effectiveness and to elucidate factors associated with success and sustainability... - Congenital syphilis: a continuing but neglected problemGodfrey J A Walker
c o Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group, Division of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Liverpool, First Floor, Liverpool Women s NHS Foundation Trust, Crown Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS, UK
Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 12:198-206. 2007..There is an urgent need for international health agencies to support focused approaches to tackling the tragedy of continuing congenital syphilis. This could be a part of a pro-poor strategy to meet the Millennium Development Goals... - Prevention of congenital syphilis--time for actionDamian G Walker
Bull World Health Organ 82:401. 2004 - Would universal antenatal screening for HIV infection be cost-effective in a setting of very low prevalence? Modelling the data for AustraliaNicholas Graves
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Health Care Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
J Infect Dis 190:166-74. 2004.... - Vaccine-preventable haemophilus influenza type B disease burden and cost-effectiveness of infant vaccination in IndonesiaBradford D Gessner
Agence de Medecine Preventive, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Pediatr Infect Dis J 27:438-43. 2008..Most of Asia, including Indonesia, does not use Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccines. We estimated total vaccine-preventable disease burden and the cost-effectiveness of Hib conjugate vaccine in Indonesia... - Poverty and access to health care in developing countriesDavid H Peters
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Rm E8132, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1136:161-71. 2008..The challenge remains to find ways to ensure that vulnerable populations have a say in how strategies are developed, implemented, and accounted for in ways that demonstrate improvements in access by the poor... - Economic welfare implications of differently structured vision care marketsKevin D Frick
Br J Ophthalmol 92:301-2. 2008