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 contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based …

, and protection from the risk of financial loss. For health systems, this goal is of particular importance and especially … special concern about how health systems are financed.(Behrman 1995;Londoño & Frenk 1997;World Health Organization 2000) Much … of the public discourse in countries undertaking health sector reform is focused on the design of health system financing …

Although evidence for the connection between health and the economy is increasing, most countries have still not been … Macroeconomics and Health (CMH), released in December 2001, provides governments and citizens alike with an invaluable tool for … formulating more effective policies to fortify the myriad complementarities between health and the economy …

The essential purpose of public health surveillance is to monitor important health outcomes and risk factors and …, disease, and death. Although separate 1970s-era acts of Congress made possible the creation of modern occupational health and … environmental public health surveillance, these acts also led to fragmented responsibilities and unconnected data across federal …

In recent decades, public health policy and practice have been increasingly challenged by globalization, even as global … financing for health has increased dramatically. This article discusses globalization and its health challenges from a vantage … driving, and driven by, global market integration. This integration requires a shift in public health thinking from a singular …

Marked health inequities exist between regions, between countries, and within countries. Reducing these inequities in … health requires attention to the unfair distribution of power, money, and resources and the conditions of everyday life …. These are the social determinants of health. The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health …

This review focuses on several human population health research topics that exemplify interdisciplinary concepts and … approaches from anthropology, nutrition, and public health with an emphasis on applied or translational global health … implications. First, a recent study on neonatal survival in a resource-poor region emphasizes how health can be markedly improved …

Our paper investigates the relationship between family income and child health in France. We first examine whether … there is a significant correlation between family income and child general health, and the evolution of this relationship … across childhood years. We then study the role of specific health problems, the use of health care services, and supplemental …

of crucial importance in Africa where shortages affects the health system resilience. Edwards et al provides a good … the strengthening so that managers can better intervene in complex contexts? Deeper involvement of health authorities and … more rigorous approaches are seriously desirable for the proper development of health capacity strengthening programs in …