Resource utilization and hospital cost of HIV/AIDS care in Italy in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (Publications)
This study set out: (1) to describe resource utilization patterns among four groups of HIV-infected patients at different stages of the disease, and (2) to estimate the direct hospital costs of HIV/AI
Costs of diabetes: a methodological analysis of the literature (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To review studies on the costs of diabetes and its complications through a scheme designed specifically for assessing the quality of cost-of-illness (COI) studies. DESIGN AND SETTING: The m
Explaining suicide in an urban slum of Mumbai, India: a sociocultural autopsy (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health demographic mortality studies use verbal autopsies to identify suicide as a cause of death. Psychological autopsies focus almost exclusively on associated high-risk psychiatric diso
