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AVILES, Ligia et al. Costo efectividad de los abordajes terapéuticos para tabaco dependencia en La Paz-Bolivia. Cuad. - Hosp. Clín. [online]. 2008, vol.53, n.2, pp.33-44. ISSN 1562-6776.

ABSTRACT Research question What is the cost effectiveness of different intervention policies for smoking cessation, in La Paz , Bolivia , in the year 2005? Objective To develop a protocol for assessing the cost effectiveness of different intervention policies to stop smoking in the municipality of the city of La Paz , year 2005. Design Economic Survey: this is a comparative analysis of alternative actions in terms of cost and benefits, whose main objective is to evaluate the opportunity cost, the actual cost of the best programs to use with fewer resources. Sample Size The sample consists of those key decision makers within the country’s health system, representing the public sector (including public security, public health networks, units of state agencies, etc.), the social security sector (includes health security, social work, service companies and other organizations that receive funding by obligatory contributions and contributions from workers and employees and / or state grants), the private sector (including businesses and non profit organizations that receive voluntary contributions from their individual or corporate members) and the mixed sector (including those organizations that combine two or more of the sectors described above). Population Consists of the country´s health managers. Target Population All actors in anti smoking health management. Results Results were presented according to the goals, variables operationalized in the questionnaire that assess the cost effectiveness of interventions for anti tobacco decision makers.

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