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Modeling the Impact and Intervention of a Sexually Transmitted Disease: Human Papilloma Virus

Corley, Courtney D. - 2006

% vaccination coverage will be probable; hence, the need for vaccination strategies that will have the greatest reduction on the …-biased vaccination strategies: one model incorporates temporal demographics (i.e., age) in population compartments; the other non …

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Rates of SARS-COV-2 transmission and vaccination impact the fate of vaccine-resistant strains

Rella, Simón A.; Kulikova, Yuliya; Dermitzakis, …

-like pattern of the pandemic and consider the impact of the rate of vaccination and the strength of non-pharmaceutical intervention … measures on the probability of emergence of a resistant strain. As expected, we found that a fast rate of vaccination decreases … end of the vaccination campaign can substantially reduce the probability of resistant strain establishment. These results …

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Change agents and the evolution of the United States pharmaceutical industry, 1920--1960

Lee, Jeho - 1996

This dissertation examines the evolution of the market and the firms in the context of an emerging innovative race in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The history shows the existence of two distinct industry regimes. Before 1940, the industry can best be characterized as a competitive regime in...

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"Your Life is Waiting!": Symbolic Meanings in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Advertising

Grow, Jean; Park, Jin Seong; Han, Xiaoqi - 2006

This semiotic analysis demonstrates how pharmaceutical companies strategically frame depression within the hotly contested terrain of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. The study tracks regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, relative to DTC advertising, including recent industry codes of...

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Consumer construction of the agricultural biotechnology industry's legitimacy: An empirical test of values congruency as institutional and actional legitimacy formation

Mosley, Raul A - 2006

institutional legitimacy) and to market drug-producing crops called Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (an instance of actional legitimacy …. Consumers were more slightly more likely to acknowledge the industry's right to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (r = .257 … as a big business entity and to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals. …

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Macroeconomic Implications of Health Policy in the United States.

Kashiwase, Kenichiro - 2009

This dissertation brings health policy forward to the macroeconomic arena and explores how policy reforms impact the U.S. economy and well-being of the people in the long run. This research builds a stochastic overlapping generations (OLG) model and applies it in a dynamic general equilibrium...

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A community based approach for the operation and maintenance of shared basic water and sanitation services in informal settlements within the municipal jurisdiction of the City of...

Illing, Cindy - 2009

Access to basic water and sanitation services in South Africa is considered a basic human right, and constitutionally, local government is responsible for the provision thereof. However, in the informal settlements in towns and cities, residents continue to be exposed to environmental health...

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Association Health Plans: Legislation in the 109th Congress

Hearne, Jean P; Domestic Social Policy Division - 2005

An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The...

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ARE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STAMP POLICIES COST-EFFECTIVE?

de Mouzon, O.; Requillart, V.; Soler, L.G.; … - 2010

In many countries, consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V) is below recommendedlevels. We quantify the economic and health effects of F&V stamp policy designed for low income consumers. The analysis combined two models: an economic model which predictshow F&V consumption is affected by a...

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Einbeziehung der privaten Krankenvollversicherung in den Risikostrukturausgleich der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in Deutschland. Abschätzung der quantitativen Auswirkungen

Lüngen, Markus; Stollenwerk, Björn; Gerber, Andreas; … - 2007

Die Einbeziehung der privaten Krankenversicherung (PKV) in den Risikostrukturausgleich (RSA) der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) wird häufig diskutiert. In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand einer quantitativen Analyse unter Verwendung der Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP)...

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