Publications by authors named "O de Crouy Chanel"
Background: We quantify the mortality burden and economic loss attributable to nonoptimal temperatures for cold and heat in the Central and South American countries in the Multi-City Multi-Country (MCC) Collaborative Research Network.
Methods: We collected data for 66 locations from 13 countries in Central and South America to estimate location-specific temperature-mortality associations using time-series regression with distributed lag nonlinear models. We calculated the attributable deaths for cold and heat as the 2.
Article Synopsis
- The study introduces a comprehensive framework, called the Comprehensive Impact Assessment (CIA), to evaluate the long-term health and economic effects of policy changes, specifically focusing on air pollution reduction in Geneva.
- The CIA framework considers four key time-related factors: cessation lag, implementation timeframe, discounting, and time horizon, which leads to different outcomes compared to standard methods like the Quantitative Health Impact Assessment (QHIA).
- Findings indicate that the QHIA tends to overestimate the benefits of health and economic impacts by about 50% due to neglecting these time issues, highlighting the importance of using the CIA for more accurate cost-benefit analyses.
Introduction: Developing countries face major challenges in implementing universal health coverage (UHC): a widespread informal sector, general discontent with rising economic insecurity and inequality and the rollback of state and public welfare. Under such conditions, estimating the demand for a health insurance scheme (HIS) on voluntary basis can be of interest to accelerate the progress of UHC-oriented reforms. However, a major challenge that needs to be addressed in such context is related to protest attitudes that may reflect, inter alia, a null valuation of the expected utility or unexpressed demand.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite unprecedented progress in developing COVID-19 vaccines, global vaccination levels needed to reach herd immunity remain a distant target, while new variants keep emerging. Obtaining near universal vaccine uptake relies on understanding and addressing vaccine resistance. Simple questions about vaccine acceptance however ignore that the vaccines being offered vary across countries and even population subgroups, and differ in terms of efficacy and side effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Scarcity of data on the health impacts and associated economic costs of heat waves may limit the will to invest in adaptation measures. We assessed the economic impact associated with mortality, morbidity, and loss of well-being during heat waves in France between 2015 and 2019.
Methods: Health indicators monitored by the French national heat wave plan were used to estimate excess visits to emergency rooms and outpatient clinics and hospitalizations for heat-related causes.