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during the Fall semester of 2020 in the specific context of a 90-student graduate course in healthcare finance at the MIT …
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The problem of antimicrobial resistance has led some infectious disease experts and their professional societies to propose the use of transferable intellectual property rights (wildcard patents) and patent term extensions as methods to encourage antimicrobial Ramp;D. We evaluate recent...
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The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) has been at the epicenter of public discussions due to its possibly adverse effects on the domestic regulation of public services. While the GATS has an admittedly broad scope, its ‘bite’ largely depends on commitments undertaken by WTO...
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Healthcare systems differ greatly across the world, however, it appears that the extent of public insurance (publicly …/government funded healthcare) is the only institutional characteristic that plays a significant role in accounting for the large … disparities in total healthcare spending. Other factors, such as whether healthcare services are provided by the private or public …
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Objective: To study cross-national inequalities in mortality of adults and of children aged 5 years using a novel approach, with clustering techniques to stratify countries into mortality groups (better-off, worse-off, mid-level) and to examine risk factors associated with inequality. Design,...
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Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because ethical claims have the power to motivate, delineate...
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countries. The idea to employ A.I. to combat corruption in general and healthcare corruption, in particular, is gaining momentum …
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of these two external shocks from the perspective of the healthcare sector. The paper also analyses likely impacts of the … trade tensions on the healthcare sector and the economy at large through secondary impacts on, for example, adoption rates … trade of critical healthcare products, in the mid- and long-term, we posit that certain changes in consumption patterns may …
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We examine the effect of publicly provided health care on welfare by combining local level data on public health care, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a positive effect on individuals' life satisfaction in our...
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The main objective of this paper is to analyze trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous studies, we not only focus on medicines, but on a large set of products that enter the public health space and can be identified in the common trade classification. The first...
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