In October 1988, the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) triplevaccine was introduced in the UK. This study analyses the processof gathering and communicating factual evidence to support thedecision made in order to implement the triple vaccine and to renewthe prevailing vaccination policy. The...

Die Gesundheitswirtschaft besitzt eine Schlüsselstellung für die Zukunft von Le‐bensqualität, Arbeit und Wettbewerbsfähig‐keit in Nordrhein‐Westfalen. Gesundheits‐wirtschaft zielt darauf, das Verhältnis von „Gesundheit“ und „Wirtschaft“ zum gesell‐schaftlichen Nutzen...

Seltene Erkrankungen betreffen zu über 70Prozent Kinder, sind vielfach chronisch und oftmit schweren Beeinträchtigungen derLebensqualität oder gar tödlichem Verlaufverbunden.Seltene Erkrankungen sind nicht wirklichselten: ca. 4 Mio. Betroffene in Deutschlandleiden an einer der 6000‐8000...

Research infrastructures (RIs) are the most powerful means to foster cooperation on a pan-European scale and to provide efficient access to advanced methods and technologies for the scientific community.The existence, availability and easy access to leading research infrastructures is a key...

Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...

An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries.This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase therelative return of the...