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Rights (TRIPS Agreement) and Public Health adopted by the World Trade Organization, we realize that its impact is beyond … issues of public health stricto sensu. The Doha Declaration has inspired discussions at the Council for TRIPS regarding … effects on public health, especially for the vulnerable communities in the Global-South. The main argument of the proponents …
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NHS waiting lists (in England, given that health is a devolved responsibility) over the last 17 years - the period for …
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Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
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Individuals in the UK with health conditions may be entitled to two types of benefits - incapacity benefits (for those … 'health-related' benefits - and official projections suggest that claimant numbers will rise further still. Whoever wins the … government has already announced a number of reforms to the health-related benefit system in the last year, including a …
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The Scottish Government's Budget for 2024-25 takes place at a time of particular uncertainty about the future funding environment. UK government spending plans both for the coming year and for later years seem likely to be topped up, but when and by how much is unclear. The current UK government...
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Health spending, and the performance of the NHS, will feature prominently in the upcoming general election campaign …. Many different factors matter for NHS performance and for the wider health of the population, but one important factor is … the level of spending on health services. In this IFS pre-election briefing, we examine UK government health spending over …
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Health is the largest single area of Scottish Government spending, making up 35% of the Scottish Government's total … by large increases in health spending in the 2000s and cutbacks to other areas of spending in the 2010s. This trend is … healthy population, and medical advancements, Scottish health spending would need to grow by around 3% in real terms per year …
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The purpose of this report is to analyze the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the vaccine industry from an international perspective. The objective is to learn from the experience and contribute to the design of better tools for future vaccine development and manufacturing, as we...
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a top threat for global health and development as it has the potential to become the …
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This paper analyzes the debate over the international dissemination of data exclusivity as a form of protection for clinical trial data. This is a critical demand for pharmaceutical companies seeking larger market shares and longer periods of monopoly in order to recover investments in research...
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