Browsing by Author "Salomon, Joshua"
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Reconsidering the Use of Rankings in the Valuation of Health States: A Model for Estimating Cardinal Values from Ordinal Data
Salomon, Joshua A. (BioMed Central, 2003)Background: In survey studies on health-state valuations, ordinal ranking exercises often are used as precursors to other elicitation methods such as the time trade-off (TTO) or standard gamble, but the ranking data have ... -
Sexual Behaviors and HIV Status: A Population-Based Study Among Older Adults in Rural South Africa
Rosenberg, Molly S.; Gómez-Olivé, Francesc X.; Rohr, Julia K.; Houle, Brian C.; Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W.; Wagner, Ryan G.; Salomon, Joshua A.; Kahn, Kathleen; Berkman, Lisa F.; Tollman, Stephen M.; Bärnighausen, Till (JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2016)Objective: To identify the unmet needs for HIV prevention among older adults in rural South Africa. Methods: We analyzed data from a population-based sample of 5059 men and women aged 40 years and older from the study ... -
Spline-based modelling of trends in the force of HIV infection, with application to the UNAIDS Estimation and Projection Package
Hogan, Daniel R; Salomon, Joshua A. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2012)Objective: We previously developed a flexible specification of the UNAIDS Estimation and Projection Package (EPP) that relied on splines to generate time-varying values for the force of infection parameter. Here, we test ... -
Sustainable Development in Surgery: The Health, Poverty, and Equity Impacts of Charitable Surgery in Uganda
Shrime, Mark George; Sekidde, Serufusa; Linden, Allison; Cohen, Jessica L; Weinstein, Milton Charles; Salomon, Joshua A. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016)Background. The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals call for the end of poverty and the equitable provision of healthcare. These goals are often at odds, however: health seeking can lead to catastrophic spending, ... -
Teenage smoking behaviour following a high-school smoking ban in Chile: interrupted time-series analysis
Feigl, Andrea B; Salomon, Joshua A; Danaei, Goodarz; Ding, Eric L; Calvo, Esteban (World Health Organization, 2015)Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effect of a smoking ban in high schools on smoking behaviour among Chilean students. Methods: We conducted an interrupted time-series analysis, using repeated cross-sectional data from ... -
Using interviewer random effects to remove selection bias from HIV prevalence estimates
McGovern, Mark; Bärnighausen, Till; Salomon, Joshua A.; Canning, David J. (Springer Science + Business Media, 2015)Background Selection bias in HIV prevalence estimates occurs if non-participation in testing is correlated with HIV status. Longitudinal data suggests that individuals who know or suspect they are HIV positive are less ... -
With or Without: Empirical Analyses of Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality
Pande, Aakanksha (2012-12-13)The existence of unfair differences or disparities in access to and quality of health care is well known. However, the nature of disparities at different stages of the health seeking pathway and interventions to reduce ...