Economics and Public Health at CDC

Details

• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement
• Personal Author:
  Messonnier, Mark L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  Economics is the study of decisions--the incentives that lead to them and the consequences that result from them--as they relate to present and future production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services when resources are limited and have alternative uses. At CDC, economics is used to systematically identify, measure, value, and compare the costs and consequences of alternative Prevention strategies. Costs and consequences in public health can be measured in various ways, including incidence or prevalence of disease; numbers of adverse events; utility measures, such as quality-adjusted life years; and monetary values. Because it deals with behavior, economics is not really about money at all. Money is just a convenient way to measure incentives and consequences.
• Subjects:
  CDC / History Economics / History History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Public Health / History
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement, 2006; v.55, p. 17-19 (5 pdf pages)
• Series:
  Supplements: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  2380-8950 (print) ; 2380-8942 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Historical Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  p. 17-19 (5 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  55
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2a3f05949482bda7af1e8f8ae33a6c5cbd6d827cd33c97e073809e945625d35cbe505b9d3b0375cef847d1f7409d828a34323f98fb56b285e9ff0c2d4e188c0d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/106191/cdc_106191_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 156.53 KB ]