Optimal information collection for dynamic health care policy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Mathematical models of health systems and disease can provide important information to decision makers when direct experimentation is impossible, impractical, or unethical, and when there are many possible decision alternatives. When costs or benefits of a medical or health policy decision are in the distant future (perhaps decades away) or are borne by other members of society, mathematical models may be the only practical way to fully evaluate the costs and consequences of policy alternatives. Through modeling, the decision maker can develop a deeper understanding of which factors have the greatest impact on the outcome of interest and explicitly explore decision uncertainty. This dissertation applies and extends the use of mathematical models in the application area of health policy -- specifically to applications of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening in injection drug users (IDUs) and the general population.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Cipriano, Lauren Elizabeth |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Brandeau, Margaret L |
| Primary advisor | Weber, Thomas |
| Thesis advisor | Brandeau, Margaret L |
| Thesis advisor | Weber, Thomas |
| Thesis advisor | Owens, Douglas K |
| Advisor | Owens, Douglas K |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lauren Elizabeth Cipriano. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Lauren Elizabeth Cipriano
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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