November 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
What do we mean when we talk about malaria control vs. elimination vs. eradication? This paper provides a historical overview of terminology, and proposes new conceptual definitions.Read more
October 2010
Malaria, Malaria
Has the number of malaria deaths in India been substantially underestimated?Read more
October 2010
Malaria, Environmental Health
What is meant by value of information? When does information have value? What are state-of-the-practice methods to ascribe value to information?Read more
September 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Antibiotic Resistance
How can financial incentives be leveraged to increase antibiotic effectiveness?Read more
August 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
Limiting the spread of antimalarial resistance is one of the key rationales motivating ACT deployment, but surprisingly little research has been conducted on the spread of antimalarial resistance following large-scale ACT deployment. This study reports on the large-scale surveillance of dhfr and...Read more
August 2010
Malaria, Malaria
Multiple first-line therapies (MFT) have the potential to decrease mortality and morbidity while maximizing the useful therapeutic life of ACTs by delaying the development of drug resistance. However, the effectiveness and success of any strategy will also depend on the financial and operational...Read more
August 2010
Malaria, Malaria
There is strong evidence to support the implementation of multiple first-line therapies (MFTs) to delay the evolution of anti-malarial drug resistance, particularly given the uncertainty about timeline for the emergence of such resistance.Read more
August 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
Could a neglected technology turn out to be an important mechanism against antibiotic resistance?Read more
August 2010
Disease Control Priorities
Vitamin A deficiency may affect 130 million children worldwideRead more
June 2010
Malaria, Malaria
The mapping here of both communities of countries linked by likely higher levels of infection movement, and natural migration boundaries that display reduced movement of people and infections between regions has practical utility. These maps can inform the design of malaria elimination strategies...Read more
June 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
The Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (ITFAR) was created in 1999 to bring together 10 of the federal agencies working on issues related to resistance. While the task force has successfully documented progress on federal antimicrobial resistance-related projects and increased...Read more
June 2010
Malaria, Malaria
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
This brief highlights the strong link between flu and antibiotic prescription. According to recent research, from 1995 through 2002, 26 percent of patientsjust over one-quarter of themwho were diagnosed with flu were prescribed antibiotics. And that excludes people whose diagnosis could plausibly...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health, Environmental Health
Canadian municipal water utilities have had to face many difficulties in the past few years, not the least of which has been an erosion of consumer confidence in the safety of publicly supplied drinking water. This paper discusses how economic theory is used to develop a methodology for determining...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Malaria
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
This paper explores the problem of sequential exploitation of exhaustible resources by a monopolist, when a setup cost must be incurred to access the next pool. Under certain circumstances, the monopolist will always follow a more conservationist path of extraction and delay the introduction of new...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health, Environmental Health
We compare cost-of-illness (COI) and willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates of the damages from minor respiratory symptoms associated with air pollution, using data from a study in Taiwan in 1991-92. A contingent valuation survey was conducted to estimate WTP to avoid minor respiratory illnesses...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Malaria
Resources for the Future (RFF) convened a Forum of operational experts, scientists, economists, and policymakers to consider the best available evidence to address issues still of concern to some stakeholders regarding the large-scale implementation of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria(AMFm...Read more
May 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Malaria
This week's commentary, by Dave Smith and Maciej Boni, who we are delighted to have with us at RFF, provides a brief history of attempts to control malaria. This enormously important topic is also very timely, given the development of effective new drugs to treat the disease and the current...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Environmental Health
We discuss an application of probabilistic inversion techniques to a model of campylobacter transmission in chicken processing lines. Such techniques are indicated when we wish to quantify a model which is new and perhaps unfamiliar to the expert community. In this case there are no measurements...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
In response to the challenge of sustaining the health gains achieved in the better-performing states and ensuring that the lagging states catch up with the rest of the country, the Indian government has launched the National Rural Health Mission. A central goal of the effort is to increase public...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Health and Development
Vibrio cholerae in O-group 139 was first isolated in 1992 and by 1993 had been found throughout the Indian subcontinent. This epidemic expansion probably resulted from a single source after a lateral gene transfer (LGT) event that changed the serotype of an epidemic V. cholerae O1 El Tor strain to...Read more
