Cost-Effectiveness

Cost-Effectiveness of Digital Mental Health Versus Usual Care During Humanitarian Crises in Lebanon: Pragmatic Randomized Trial

Scientific article

29 May 2024

Background: Digital mental health interventions for depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders are generally cost-effective, but evidence is lacking for guided digital mental health care in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)...

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in the Czech Republic: Study Design

Scientific article

4 May 2022

INTRODUCTION: Screening and brief interventions (SBI) consist of a variety of activities aimed at people who engage in risky alcohol drinking, but who are not severely alcohol-dependent. Many studies have proved that SBI might serve as a...

Long-Term Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Videoconference-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder in Japan: One-Year Follow-Up of a Single-Arm Trial

Scientific article

23 April 2020

ABSTRACT Background: Face-to-face individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and internet-based CBT (ICBT) without videoconferencing are known to have long-term effectiveness for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder (PD)...

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Major Trial of Ways to Extend Brief Alcohol Interventions

Scientific article

30 August 2019

Could combinations of three strategies - training and support, financial reimbursement, and the opportunity to refer patients to a website - effectively and cost-effectively boost delivery of brief alcohol interventions in five European...

How Can Contingency Management Support Treatment for Substance Use Disorders? A Systematic Review

Book

1 May 2016

Rewarding people dependent on illegal drugs for not using those drugs is a controversial tactic, one this report from the European Union’s drug misuse centre found patchily effective in extending retention and reducing substance use as a...

Cost‐Effectiveness of Increasing the Reach of Smoking Cessation Interventions in Germany

Scientific article

15 December 2017

Abstract Aims To evaluate costs, effects and cost‐effectiveness of increased reach of specific smoking cessation interventions in Germany. Design A Markov‐based state transition return on investment model (EQUIPTMOD) was used to evaluate...

Cost‐Effectiveness of Alternative Smoking Cessation Scenarios in Spain

Scientific article

13 March 2018

Abstract Aims To assess the cost‐effectiveness of alternative smoking cessation scenarios from the perspective of the Spanish National Health Service (NHS). Design We used the European study on Quantifying Utility of Investment in...

Cost-Effectiveness Study of Interventions to Prevent Alcohol Abuse in Mexico

Scientific article

1 September 2010

Abstract Introduction In Mexico, alcohol abuse involves overhead costs in terms of premature mortality caused by their related health problems. It is estimated that by itself it implies 9% of the total burden of disease in the country...

Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe

Scientific article

24 August 2016

Background Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due to...

Seminar on Cost-Effective Measures for Reducing Harmful Use of Alcohol

28 February 2017

Bogota

Colombia

In 2016, Colombia’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection, in collaboration with PAHO, developed a strategic and management framework to manage the harmful use of alcohol in the country. This framework is aligned with the National Plan for Health Promotion, Prevention, and Care for Psychoactive Substances, and draws on global guidelines and recommendations.