The New England journal of medicine, 1999-03, Vol.340 (10), p.773-779
1999
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Cost Effectiveness of Strategies for the Treatment of Intestinal Parasites in Immigrants
- Ist Teil von
- The New England journal of medicine, 1999-03, Vol.340 (10), p.773-779
- Ort / Verlag
- Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1999
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Immigration to the United States has reached a historic high, with nearly 1 million citizens naturalized in 1996. 1 Approximately 600,000 came from countries where intestinal parasites are endemic. Health policy with respect to managing parasitic disease varies within the United States and internationally. Governmental recommendations include universal screening, selective screening, and watchful waiting. 2 – 4 Economic analyses of these approaches have been inconclusive. 5 , 6 Presumptive treatment became a viable option in mid-1997, when the Food and Drug Administration approved albendazole, a broad-spectrum anthelmintic agent. 7 This drug is inexpensive and is effective against Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator . . .
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0028-4793eISSN: 1533-4406DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199903113401006Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_69598908
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Albendazole, Albendazole - economics, Albendazole - therapeutic use, Analysis, Biological and medical sciences, Care and treatment, Cost benefit analysis, Cost of Illness, Costs, Decision Support Techniques, Drug Costs - statistics & numerical data, Emigration and Immigration, FDA approval, Feces - parasitology, Health aspects, Hospitalization, Hospitalization - economics, Humans, Immigrants, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - diagnosis, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - drug therapy, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - economics, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic - mortality, Mass Screening - economics, Medicaid, Medical care, Cost of, Medical sciences, Models, Economic, Parasites, Prevention and actions, Preventive Health Services - economics, Public health. Hygiene, Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine, Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...), Studies