Prevention or treatment? The case of malaria

Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Jean Gaudart and Josselin Thuilliez

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 131, issue C, 16-19

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)
JEL-codes: I15 I25 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.03.022

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