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Applying the Lorenz curve to disease risk to optimize health benefits under cost constraints

This paper shows how the Lorenz curve can be used, together with models of disease risk, to allocate scarce resources so as to optimize a health benefit. Consider the example of breast cancer mortality. If there were sufficient resources to provide all women with mammograms, a certain maximal number...

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Autor Principal: Gail, Mitchell H.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749326/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19779595
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