Prevention or treatment? The case of malaria

Jean-Claude Berthélemy (1, 2) , Jean Gaudart (3) , Josselin Thuilliez (2)

1 FERDI - Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International
2 CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
3 SESSTIM - U912 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - IRD - Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale

We present a simple theoretical model of household preventive behavior in response to malaria prevalence. The novelty is to include a trade-off between prevention and treatment in an otherwise standard epidemiological model of disease transmission, which depends on the relative price of treatment with respect to prevention. A relatively low price of treatment reduces prevention.

Mots clés: Economic epidemiology; Malaria; Treatment; Prevention; Price

Domaines: Economies et finances; Probabilités [math.PR]; Statistiques [math.ST]; Santé; Parasitologie; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Méthodes et statistiques; Applications [stat.AP]; Méthodologie [stat.ME]

Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Jean Gaudart, Josselin Thuilliez. Prevention or treatment? The case of malaria. Economics Letters, 2015, 131, pp.16-19. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2015.03.022⟩. ⟨halshs-01157279⟩