3222.0 Cost-Benefit Analysis for Public Health: Return on Investment for Prevention & Long-term Sustainable Outcomes

Monday, October 29, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This session will provide examples of how cost data, financial incentives and economic modeling are being utilized to promote the availability and sustainability of important public health prevention programs and services.
Session Objectives: Describe steps involved in developing an economic model for public health initiatives
Moderator:
Green Ekadi, MS, PhD

12:30pm
Economic evaluation of targeted tuberculosis testing of children entering school in Los Angeles County
Ricardo Basurto-Dávila, PhD, MS, Yuwen Yue, MPH, Heather Readhead, MD MPH, Chhandasi Bagchi, MPH and Frank Alvarez, MD, MPH
     
12:50pm
Incorporating economic modeling and cost estimation into local public health data
Leslie Ray, MPH, MPPA, MA, Alicia Sampson, MPH, CPH, Barbara M. Stepanski, MPH, Alan M. Smith, PhD, MPH, Joshua Smith, PhD, MPH and Isabel Corcos, PhD, MPH
     
  
1:10pm
Rural Healthy Community coalition links worksite wellness and health reform for smallest employers: A simulated work-site wellness add-on for insurance exchanges
Kala E. Ladenheim, PhD, MSPH and Philip DiRusso, MS
     
                 

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Health Administration

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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