This report reviews evidence and opportunities for governors to control health care costs and improve outcomes through quality initiatives, coordinated care, primary care and prevention, and payment reforms.

Before Medicare Part D, Congress authorized the Medicare disease management demonstration to evaluate whether disease management programs—in conjunction with a comprehensive prescription drug benefit—could improve health outcomes and reduce Medicare expenditures. The demonstration...

Sleep disorders are a significant and growing problem, both for the economy of the nation and for the physical and psychological well-being of individual sufferers. The purpose of this research was to investigate the operational, administrative and medical environment within which sleep...

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...

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...

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