273121 Evaluating Case Burden and Program Cost Effectiveness

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 : 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Travis Porco, PhD , Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Mathematical models of tuberculosis control can help provide insight into tuberculosis control at the local level. In this talk, we will examine two applications of tuberculosis modeling in California. First, we will show how mathematical models have been used for cost effectiveness analysis of immigrant screening programs in a specific case study. Second, we will show how mathematical models can provide insight into contributors to the California case burden and predict the expected annual decline under current conditions.

Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Biostatistics, economics
Epidemiology
Protection of the public in relation to communicable diseases including prevention or control
Provision of health care to the public
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Analyze the effect of latent tuberculosis treatment in California in reducing the case load

Keywords: TB, Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I conducted the numerical analysis and wrote the content.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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