The Republican Health Care Debacle: How Not to Make Public Policy
In early May, the U.S.
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An FDA Commissioner for the 21st Century
President Donald Trump has named Scott Gottlieb as his nominee to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines
Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that ot
The Evolution of Health Insurer Costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12
We analyze the evolution of health insurer costs in Massachusetts between 2010-2012, paying particular attention to changes in the composition of enrollees.
Paying for Antiretroviral Adherence: Is It Unethical When the Patient Is an Adolescent?
With the expansion of antiretroviral treatment programmes, many children and adolescents with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa could expect to live healthy lives.
Physician Agency and Patient Survival
We investigate the role of physician agency in determining health care supply and patient outcomes.
The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine
Legitimate authority is the normative power to govern, where a normative power is the ability to change the normative situation of others.
Price-Linked Subsidies and Health Insurance Markups
Subsidies in many health insurance programs depend on prices set by competing insurers – as prices rise, so do subsidies.
Barbershops and Preventative Health: A Case of Embedded Education
This is a case study of the Colorado Black Health Collaborative (CBHC) Barbershop/Salon Health Outreach Program, a community-based initiative that targeted disproportionate rates of hypertension and o
Health Education in China's Factories: A Case of Embedded Education
This case study focuses on HERhealth, the health education program within the HERproject as it was implemented in China from 2007 onwards .
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