health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible. …

Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended …. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP …, and have proposed a plethora of interventions to raise adherence. However, health economics provides little explicit …

In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared that novel influenza A (nH1N1) had reached pandemic status … worldwide. The response to the spread of this virus by the public and by the public health community was immediate and …, used by public health officials to aid in making many decisions including vaccination policy, ignore avoidance responses in …

the value of longer life may be affected by these general equilibrium demographic effects. …

ICT in clinical care is limited. We examine how a number of not previously emphasized features of the health care and ICT … of technical compatibility. These barriers are compounded by the many interlinked markets in health care, which … is needed. The value of waiting in health care is likely to be so much greater than in other sectors because the costs of …