Browsing by Author "Prosser, Lisa"
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The cost of a primary care-based childhood obesity prevention intervention
Wright, Davene R; Taveras, Elsie M; Gillman, Matthew W; Horan, Christine M; Hohman, Katherine H; Gortmaker, Steven L; Prosser, Lisa A (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: United States pediatric guidelines recommend that childhood obesity counseling be conducted in the primary care setting. Primary care-based interventions can be effective in improving health behaviors, but also ... -
Decision analysis, economic evaluation, and newborn screening: challenges and opportunities
Prosser, Lisa Alison; Grosse, Scott D.; Kemper, Alex R.; Tarini, Beth A.; Perrin, James Marc (Springer Nature, 2012)The number of conditions included in newborn screening panels has increased rapidly in the United States during the past decade, and many more conditions are under consideration for addition to state panels. The rare nature ... -
Decision maker priorities for providing antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected South Africans: A qualitative assessment
Kimmel, April D.; Daniels, Norman; Betancourt, Theresa Stichick; Wood, Robin; Prosser, Lisa Alison (Informa UK Limited, 2012)In resource-limited settings, successful HIV treatment scale-up has been tempered by reports of funding shortfalls. We aimed to determine the priorities, including ethical considerations, of decision makers for HIV ... -
Economic and Other Barriers to Adopting Recommendations to Prevent Childhood Obesity: Results of a Focus Group Study with Parents
Sonneville, Kendrin Rae; La Pelle, Nancy; Taveras, Elsie Mireya; Gillman, Matthew William; Prosser, Lisa Alison (BioMed Central, 2009)Background: Parents are integral to the implementation of obesity prevention and management recommendations for children. Exploration of barriers to and facilitators of parental decisions to adopt obesity prevention ... -
Examining Methods Used to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of Childhood Obesity Interventions
Wright, Davene (2013-02-08)This dissertation examines methods used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of childhood obesity interventions in order to help decision-makers prioritize among competing health programs using standardized outcomes. Chapter ... -
Health Benefits, Risks, and Cost-Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination of Children
Prosser, Lisa Alison; Bridges, Carolyn Buxton; Uyeki, Timothy M.; Hinrichsen, Virginia L.; Meltzer, Martin I.; Molinari, Noelle-Angelique M.; Schwartz, Benjamin; Thompson, William W.; Fukuda, Keiji; Lieu, Tracy Ann (U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases, 2006)We estimated cost-effectiveness of annually vaccinating children not at high risk with inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) to range from US $12,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) saved for children ages 6–23 months ... -
Impact of false-positive newborn metabolic screening results on early health care utilization
Lipstein, Ellen A; Perrin, James Marc; Waisbren, Susan Ellen; Prosser, Lisa Alison (Springer Nature, 2009)Purpose: To analyze the association between false-positive newborn screening results and health care utilization. Methods: We surveyed parents regarding their children's health care utilization. Parents of children who ... -
Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life for Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Literature Review
Prosser, Lisa Alison; Corso, Phaedra S (BioMed Central, 2007)Background: Child maltreatment causes substantial morbidity and mortality in the U.S. Morbidity associated with child maltreatment can reduce health-related quality of life. Accurately measuring the reduction in quality ... -
Parent Preferences for Health Outcomes Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Lavelle, Tara; Weinstein, Milton Charles; Newhouse, Joseph Paul; Munir, Kerim Mehmet; Kuhlthau, Karen Alice; Prosser, Lisa Alison (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-03-21)Background: Few studies have used preference-based quality of life measures to assess how autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect children and their parents, and none have examined variation in outcomes by parent-reported ... -
Use of Outcomes to Evaluate Surveillance Systems for Bioterrorist Attacks
McBrien, Kerry A; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Abrams, Allyson M; Prosser, Lisa Alison (BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Syndromic surveillance systems can potentially be used to detect a bioterrorist attack earlier than traditional surveillance, by virtue of their near real-time analysis of relevant data. Receiver operator ... -
Values for Preventing Influenza-related Morbidity and Vaccine Adverse Events in Children
Prosser, Lisa Alison; Bridges, Carolyn Buxton; Uyeki, Timothy M; Rêgo, Virginia H; Ray, G Thomas; Meltzer, Martin I; Schwartz, Benjamin; Thompson, William W; Fukuda, Keiji; Lieu, Tracy Ann (BioMed Central, 2005)Background: Influenza vaccination recently has been recommended for children 6–23 months old, but is not currently recommended for routine use in non-high-risk older children. Information on disease impact, costs, benefits, ...