Economic dimensions

This chapter adds the socio-economic dimension to the medical or technical perspectives of the proceeding contributions of this book. As its health economic terminology and approach might be unfamiliar to some readers, we start with a section on methodology. In particular, we present an overview of the concept of Cost-of-Illness (COI) and of relevant health economic evaluation techniques. In Sect. 2, we present the basic findings of a meta-analysis of the socio-economic costs of HIV/AIDS and of the socio-economic impact of antiviral intervention. The major findings are reflected in Sect. 3. The chapter closes with a speculation on long-term socio-economic costs of antiviral intervention. 

Further integration with social and economic dimensions of sustainability is also commonly considered a criterion of sustainability metrics. 

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King, F. (2002) Addressing the socio-economic dimension of the current kava problem. Pacific Kava Research Symposium. November 6—7, 2002, Suva, Fiji. 

Isengard, H. D., Water determination—Scientific and economic dimensions. Food Chemistry, 106 1393-1398, 2008. 

A package of measures for the reduction or avoidance of risk during the transport of dangerous goods has been prepared by regulation institutions, which sets out the environmental, traffic policy, and economic dimensions of these trends. 

Especially, the economical dimension of using coated silicon nitride tools to machine ductile... 

Table 7.3 shows the specific features of each variable. Among the 5 senders, three of them belong to the economic dimension (subsidies to hiorefinety, competition between food/nonfood crops, availability of biomass from spontaneous species), while the others belong to the territorial dimension (public information, geographic dispersion of biomass sources). The most important variable in terms of centrality is public information (centrality 6). subsidies for biorefineiy, competition between food/nonfood crops and geographic dispersion of biomass sources are equally important (centrality ... 

Regarding transmitter variables, 6 belong to the economic dimension, while 3 belong to the territorial dimension, 1 to the research dimension, and 1 to the environmental domain. The most central transmitter is development of the biorefinery industry, which is also the most central in absolute. Its cormections are many and carry heavy weights. This variable acts as a pulse amplifier. In fact, it receives inputs from two senders and three other transmitters for a total in-degree of 11,... 

Sweet, E. (1901). Discussion of Economic dimensions for a waterway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. Trans. ASCE 45 282-284. 

Community Social and economic dimensions of dairy farming. ... 

This sheds only limited light on the economic dimension of self-determination in Europe. The power of natural resources was especially important during decolonization in Africa. While power over natural resources is important to some minorities in Europe, such as the Sami, natural resources do not seem to be high on the list in general. 

While it is thinkable that a minority could establish a parallel economy to the majority society, it seems much more obvious that minorities also participate in the larger context where they are located. Thus, economic self-determination for minorities is difficult to conceive by itself. In connection with political self-determination, economic self-determination begins to make more sense however, still remains somewhat weak. Again, there is an overlap between minority rights with an economic dimension and internal economic self-determination without the two being congruent. 

H.M. Levin. Economic dimensions of iodine deficiency disorders. In ibid 195. 

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