Download or read book Modeling Multiple Infectious Diseases for Cost-effectiveness Analysis written by Anneke Laurel Claypool and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-effectiveness analyses can quantify and compare the benefits, harms, and costs of potential health interventions. Often, researchers will model a single disease for a cost-effectiveness analysis. However, some interventions can prevent multiple infectious diseases. For example, the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitos transmit chikungunya, Zika, dengue, and yellow fever, and thus controlling these mosquitos can prevent cases of all four diseases. This dissertation focuses on applications of and methods for modeling multiple infectious diseases in cost-effectiveness analyses. First, I investigate if the results of a cost-effectiveness analysis can depend on the set of diseases that are modeled if some interventions prevent more than one disease. Next, I model both chikungunya and dengue to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of prevention measures for both diseases in Colombia. Finally, I develop conditions under which it is necessary to model multiple diseases when conducting a cost-effectiveness analysis and propose methods for using parallel modeling to simplify multi-disease modeling.