The large and growing uninsured population poses an alarming threat to the US health care system, and is a major target of the Obama health reform. This paper investigates analytically and empirically the degree to which the absence of health insurance in the US reflects the availability of the...

This book reviews the global preparedness to pandemic challenges to human health and development by compiling the brilliant ideas of experts and entrepreneurs from the fields of public health, health economics, environmental engineering, pharmaceutical interventions, and other related fields....