Recent international efforts by the Accelerated Access Initiative, the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Global Fund, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) among other focused on establishing competitive and transparent procurement processes for antiretrovirals (ARVs) purchases and on...

What basic applied health economics skills do district managers in low-income countries need? What do they already know and what training do they receive? Methodology: Health economics training packages used in low-income countries were systematically examined - the findings were then discussed...

Rationale: Private health insurance (PHI) covers 45 million people in Brazil, which makes it one of the largest market in the world. It was until recently unregulated, and little information was available on its characteristics and impact. Recently available data make it possible to assess its...

Direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals has led to questions of whether consumers benefit from the additional drug information, or are harmed by being induced to pursue prescriptions that are unnecessary or even dangerous. We conducted an empirical study of the relation between...

This study examines the effect of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) on the use of health care services among the privately insured non-elderly population. Using data from the 2000 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, we find that HMO members are not particularly healthier than non-HMO...

The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is rapidly spreading all over the world, generating a high number of total deaths. One of the current questions is: how atmospheric factor of wind, in the presence of high levels of air pollution, affects the diffusion of COVID-19? This study...

The present paper introduces results of an analysis conducted on data collected from Khartoum state for the year 2009. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early...

Objective – The purpose of this research is to examine and analyze the factors that influence the decision of West Kalimantan citizens to use hospital services in Sarawak Malaysia, which includes: quality of service with dimensions of tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and...

We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European countries. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on...

In this paper we show how EVPPI analysis can be a good tool to formalize the decision making process leading the design and implementation of interventions aimed at preventing and controlling the consequences of extraordinary events. More concretely we the economics of emergency as the approach...