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| Author: | Gersovitz, M. Hammer, J.S. |
| Title: | The economical control of infectious diseases |
| Journal: | Economic Journal
2004 : JAN, VOL. 114:492, p. 1-27 |
| Index terms: | Disease Social planning |
| Freeterms: | Infection |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The structure of representative agents and decentralisation of the social planner's problem provide a framework for the economics of infection and associated externalities. Optimal implementation of prevention and therapy depends on: 1) biology including whether infection is person to person or by vectors, 2) whether the infected progress to recovery and susceptibility, immunity or death, 3) costs of inventions, 4) whether interventions target everyone, the uninfected, the infected or contacts between the two and 5) individual behaviour leading to two types of externalities. |
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