Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of nationwide campaigns for awareness and case finding of hepatitis C targeted at people who inject drugs and the general population in the Netherlands
Background Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is a serious, but underdiagnosed disease that can generally be treated successfully. Therefore, a nationwide HCV awareness campaign was implemented in the Netherlands targeting people who inject drugs (PWID) in addiction care (‘PWID intervention’) and high-risk groups in the general population (‘public intervention’). The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the interventions used in this campaign. Methods For the ‘PWID’ intervention, all addiction care centres in the Netherlands provided proactive individ... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Schlagwörter: | Campaign / Case finding / Cost-effectiveness / Hepatitis C / Primary prevention / Medicine (miscellaneous) / Health Policy / Journal Article |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29201878 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/355439 |