IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/aphecp/v9y2011i3p183-196.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cost effectiveness of tobacco control policies in Vietnam

Author

Listed:
  • Hideki Higashi
  • Khoa Truong
  • Jan Barendregt
  • Phuong Nguyen
  • Mai Vuong
  • Thuy Nguyen
  • Phuong Hoang
  • Angela Wallace
  • Tien Tran
  • Cuong Le
  • Christopher Doran

Abstract

All four interventions to reduce the harm from tobacco use appear to be highly cost effective and should be considered as priorities in the context of Vietnam. The government may initially consider graphic warning labels and tax increase, followed by other interventions. Copyright Adis Data Information BV 2011

Suggested Citation

  • Hideki Higashi & Khoa Truong & Jan Barendregt & Phuong Nguyen & Mai Vuong & Thuy Nguyen & Phuong Hoang & Angela Wallace & Tien Tran & Cuong Le & Christopher Doran, 2011. "Cost effectiveness of tobacco control policies in Vietnam," Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Springer, vol. 9(3), pages 183-196, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aphecp:v:9:y:2011:i:3:p:183-196
    DOI: 10.2165/11539640-000000000-00000
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2165/11539640-000000000-00000
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2165/11539640-000000000-00000?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Drummond, Michael F. & Sculpher, Mark J. & Torrance, George W. & O'Brien, Bernie J. & Stoddart, Greg L., 2005. "Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, edition 3, number 9780198529453, Decembrie.
    2. Jan Barendregt & Gerrit Van Oortmarssen & Ben Van Hout & Jacqueline M. Van Den Bosch & Luc Bonneux, 1998. "Coping with multiple morbidity in a life table," Mathematical Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 29-49.
    3. Jha, Prabhat & Chaloupka, Frank (ed.), 2000. "Tobacco Control in Developing Countries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780192632463, Decembrie.
    4. Ramanan Laxminarayan & Anil Deolalikar, 2004. "Tobacco initiation, cessation, and change: evidence from Vietnam," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(12), pages 1191-1201, December.
    5. Jenkins, C.N.H. & McPhee, S.J. & Le, A. & Pham, G.Q. & Ha, N.-T. & Stewart, S., 1997. "The effectiveness of a media-led intervention to reduce smoking among vietnamese-american men," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 87(6), pages 1031-1034.
    6. Levy, David T. & Bales, Sarah & Lam, Nguyen T. & Nikolayev, Leonid, 2006. "The role of public policies in reducing smoking and deaths caused by smoking in Vietnam: Results from the Vietnam tobacco policy simulation model," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 62(7), pages 1819-1830, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Bach Xuan Tran & Vuong Minh Nong & Rachel Marie Maher & Phuong Khanh Nguyen & Hoat Ngoc Luu, 2014. "A Systematic Review of Scope and Quality of Health Economic Evaluation Studies in Vietnam," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(8), pages 1-12, August.
    2. Frida Ngalesoni & George Ruhago & Mary Mayige & Tiago Cravo Oliveira & Bjarne Robberstad & Ole Frithjof Norheim & Hideki Higashi, 2017. "Cost-effectiveness analysis of population-based tobacco control strategies in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Tanzania," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(8), pages 1-20, August.
    3. Jain, Vageesh & Crosby, Liam & Baker, Peter & Chalkidou, Kalipso, 2020. "Distributional equity as a consideration in economic and modelling evaluations of health taxes: A systematic review," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 124(9), pages 919-931.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. G. Guindon, 2014. "The impact of tobacco prices on smoking onset in Vietnam: duration analyses of retrospective data," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 15(1), pages 19-39, January.
    2. Frida Ngalesoni & George Ruhago & Mary Mayige & Tiago Cravo Oliveira & Bjarne Robberstad & Ole Frithjof Norheim & Hideki Higashi, 2017. "Cost-effectiveness analysis of population-based tobacco control strategies in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Tanzania," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(8), pages 1-20, August.
    3. G. Emmanuel Guindon & Guillermo R. Paraje & Ricardo Chávez, 2018. "Prices, Inflation, And Smoking Onset: The Case Of Argentina," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 56(1), pages 424-445, January.
    4. Astrid Ledgaard Holm & Lennert Veerman & Linda Cobiac & Ola Ekholm & Finn Diderichsen, 2014. "Cost-Effectiveness of Preventive Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Denmark," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(2), pages 1-9, February.
    5. Cuong Viet Nguyen & Thu Thi Le & Nguyen Hanh Nguyen, 2021. "The impact of cigarette prices on smoking participation and tobacco expenditure in Vietnam," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(12), pages 1-20, December.
    6. Paal Joranger & Arild Nesbakken & Halfdan Sorbye & Geir Hoff & Arne Oshaug & Eline Aas, 2020. "Survival and costs of colorectal cancer treatment and effects of changing treatment strategies: a model approach," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 21(3), pages 321-334, April.
    7. Saha, Sanjib & Gerdtham, Ulf-G. & Toresson, Håkan & Minthon, Lennart & Jarl, Johan, 2018. "Economic Evaluation of Interventions for Screening of Dementia," Working Papers 2018:20, Lund University, Department of Economics.
    8. Mark Oppe & Daniela Ortín-Sulbarán & Carlos Vila Silván & Anabel Estévez-Carrillo & Juan M. Ramos-Goñi, 2021. "Cost-effectiveness of adding Sativex® spray to spasticity care in Belgium: using bootstrapping instead of Monte Carlo simulation for probabilistic sensitivity analyses," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 22(5), pages 711-721, July.
    9. Laurence M. Djatche & Stefan Varga & Robert D. Lieberthal, 2018. "Cost-Effectiveness of Aspirin Adherence for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events," PharmacoEconomics - Open, Springer, vol. 2(4), pages 371-380, December.
    10. Ties Hoomans & Johan Severens & Nicole Roer & Gepke Delwel, 2012. "Methodological Quality of Economic Evaluations of New Pharmaceuticals in the Netherlands," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 219-227, March.
    11. Khan, Md. Tajuddin & Kishore, Avinash & Joshi, Pramod Kumar, 2016. "Gender dimensions on farmers’ preferences for direct-seeded rice with drum seeder in India:," IFPRI discussion papers 1550, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    12. Noémi Kreif & Richard Grieve & M. Zia Sadique, 2013. "Statistical Methods For Cost‐Effectiveness Analyses That Use Observational Data: A Critical Appraisal Tool And Review Of Current Practice," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(4), pages 486-500, April.
    13. Barbara Graaff & Lei Si & Amanda L. Neil & Kwang Chien Yee & Kristy Sanderson & Lyle C. Gurrin & Andrew J. Palmer, 2017. "Population Screening for Hereditary Haemochromatosis in Australia: Construction and Validation of a State-Transition Cost-Effectiveness Model," PharmacoEconomics - Open, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 37-51, March.
    14. Christopher Fitzpatrick & Katherine Floyd, 2012. "A Systematic Review of the Cost and Cost Effectiveness of Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 30(1), pages 63-80, January.
    15. Hareth Al-Janabi & Terry N. Flynn & Joanna Coast, 2011. "Estimation of a Preference-Based Carer Experience Scale," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 31(3), pages 458-468, May.
    16. Round, Jeff, 2012. "Is a QALY still a QALY at the end of life?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 521-527.
    17. Ching-Yun Wei & Ruben G. W. Quek & Guillermo Villa & Shravanthi R. Gandra & Carol A. Forbes & Steve Ryder & Nigel Armstrong & Sohan Deshpande & Steven Duffy & Jos Kleijnen & Peter Lindgren, 2017. "A Systematic Review of Cardiovascular Outcomes-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Lipid-Lowering Therapies," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 35(3), pages 297-318, March.
    18. Raydel Valdés-Salgado & Luz Myriam Reynales-Shiguematsu & Eduardo C Lazcano-Ponce & Mauricio Hernández-Avila, 2009. "Susceptibility to Smoking among Adolescents and Its Implications for Mexico’s Tobacco Control Programs. Analysis of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2003-2004 and 2006-2007," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-14, March.
    19. Jose L Burgos & Thomas L Patterson & Joshua S Graff-Zivin & James G Kahn & M Gudelia Rangel & M Remedios Lozada & Hugo Staines & Steffanie A Strathdee, 2016. "Cost-Effectiveness of Combined Sexual and Injection Risk Reduction Interventions among Female Sex Workers Who Inject Drugs in Two Very Distinct Mexican Border Cities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(2), pages 1-15, February.
    20. Katherine Clegg Smith & K. Welding & C. Kleb & C. Washington & J. Cohen, 2018. "English on cigarette packs from six non-Anglophone low- and middle-income countries," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 63(9), pages 1071-1079, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:aphecp:v:9:y:2011:i:3:p:183-196. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.