Cost-effectiveness analysis of insecticide ban aimed at preventing Parkinson's disease in Central California.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our study assessed whether banning specific insecticides to reduce the PD burden in three Central California (CA) counties is cost-effective.

Method

We applied a cost-effectiveness analysis using a cohort-based Markov model to estimate the impact and costs of banning seven insecticides that were previously associated with PD in these counties as well as mixture exposures to some of these pesticides. We relied for our estimations on the cohort of 65- and 66-year-olds living in these counties who were unaffected by PD at baseline in 2020 and projected their incidence, costs, and reduction in quality-adjusted-life-years (QALY) loss due to developing PD over a 20-year period. We included a shiny app for modeling different scenarios (https://sherlockli.shinyapps.io/pes

SUBMITTER: Li S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11121568 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature