The combined force of the National Health Act (NHA) 2014, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act 1999 and revised National Health Policy (NHP) 2004 is monumental in terms of fashioning new avenues for protecting the health and wellbeing of Nigerians. The legislative and policy frameworks...

The possibility of attaining the benchmarks specified under the health-related aspects of the Millennium Development Goal (health-MDGs) in Africa come 2015 ranges from slim to nil. Atrocious health indices in the vast majority of countries in the region provide the starkest proof. This paper...

Many states have recently changed their scope of practice laws and granted full practice authority to nurse practitioners, allowing them to practice without oversight from physicians. Physician groups have argued against this change, citing patient safety concerns. In this paper, we use a...

The national hepatitis C elimination initiative provides an opportunity to dramatically expand access to hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment and put the US on a path to eliminating hepatitis C. Our objective was to project the health benefits and cost savings of this initiative. A previously...

This paper reports use of health care services related to health care quality over five years among over 18,000 individuals from a single large employer in the Midwestern United States that adopted an HSA-eligible health plan for all employees. It represents one of the longest observation...

Obesity is a global epidemic, exacting an enormous human and economic toll. In the absence of a comprehensive global governance strategy, states have increasingly employed a wide array of legal strategies targeting the drivers of obesity. This article identifies recent global trends in...

The body of research on how consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) affect the use and costs of health care services -- while still relatively small -- is growing. In recent work, the Employee Benefit Research Institute has examined these relationships using panel data from a large employer that...

In this paper we provide a comprehensive examination of Americans' priorities within both health and health care. We find that Americans do have a clear set of priorities in each of these areas. Americans rated cancer, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),...

We present three types of evidence about the effect of cancer drug vintage-year of initial world launch - on cancer survival and mortality. All three are based on group-level data, and employ difference-in-difference research designs, which enable us to control for the influence of potentially...

What factors affect health care delivery in the developing world? Anecdotal evidence of lives cut tragically short and the loss of productivity due to avoidable diseases is an area of salient concern in global health and international development. This working paper looks at factual evidence to...