Prevention or treatment? The case of malaria

Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Jean Gaudart () and Josselin Thuilliez
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Jean Gaudart: SESSTIM - U912 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - IRD - Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

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Abstract: We present a simple theoretical model of household preventive behavior in response to malaria prevalence. The novelty is to include a trade-off between prevention and treatment in an otherwise standard epidemiological model of disease transmission, which depends on the relative price of treatment with respect to prevention. A relatively low price of treatment reduces prevention.

Keywords: Economic epidemiology; Malaria; Treatment; Prevention; Price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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Published in Economics Letters, 2015, 131, pp.16-19. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2015.03.022⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.03.022

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