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Multiple Interfaces of Big Pharma and the Change of Global Health Governance in the Face of HIV/AIDS
Wogart, Jan Peter - 2006
By using a game theoretical approach and the notion of 'forum' or 'regime shifting' this paper examines the multiple interfaces of the multinational pharmaceutical corporations (MNPCs) with their major counterparts at home and abroad, including the governments of the North and South, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293530
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Multiple interfaces of big pharma and the change of global health governance in the face of HIV/AIDS
Wogart, Jan P. - 2006
By using a game theoretical approach and the notion of "forum" or "regime shifting" this paper examines the multiple interfaces of the multinational pharmaceutical corporations (MNPCs) with their major counterparts at home and abroad, including the governments of the North and South, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905229
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"Cast back into the dark ages of medicine"? : the challenge of antimicrobial resistance
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is currently the focus of much media attention and policy discussion. A historical perspective on AMR suggests that although the challenge of AMR is real, the doomsday tone of most commentary is unwarranted. That is partly because most of the gains in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280014
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Worms at Work : Long-Run Impacts of a Child Health Investment
Baird, Sarah - 2015
school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018302
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Worms at Work : Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment
Baird, Sarah - 2015
school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457240
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Health disparities across education : the role of differential reporting error
Cawley, John H.; Choi, Anna - 2015
. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288528
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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Personality and the education-health gradient : a note on "Understanding differences in health behaviors by education"
Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher - 2012
education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628151
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Education, health risks, and economic outcomes : essays based on micro data
Kemptner, Daniel - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203069
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Optimal staffing of specialized programme trainess under uncertainty
Özdemir-Akyıldırım, Öznur; Talay-Değirmenci, Işılay - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society : OR 66 (2015) 1, pp. 66-75
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