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Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries

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Notes

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    1 The term technical effi ciency is used in the economic framework to refer to the most effi cient way to achieve a given objective, like maximizing DALYs, for which cost-effectiveness analysis is an appropriate tool. The term social effi ciency refers to analyses involving a wider range of social costs and benefi ts, for which cost—benefi t analysis is used and requires that dollar values or some other common metric be attached to all costs and all benefits.

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    2 Note that cost—benefit analyses and other economic methods may employ various techniques for assigning weights, values, or discounts to various outcomes, but all of these are (or should be) socially defined.

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    3It is useful to think of values in terms of the goals pursued by people and organizations, the incentives they respond to, and the assets or resources available to them for pursuing their goals.

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    4 Figure 34.1 is a conceptual model analogous to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) conceptual framework for the causes of malnutrition (see [65]). Specifi cally, it does not specify the relative importance of various factors or processes in a universal sense or in a given setting, but rather identifi es the range of possibilities that should be considered in each setting.

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Pelletier, D. (2008). Beyond Partial Analysis. In: Semba, R.D., Bloem, M.W., Piot, P. (eds) Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries. Nutrition and Health Series. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-464-3_34

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