The American people need all the facts and just the facts, not platitudes, demagoguery, or a political agenda.

I am pleased that the emergency care I needed did not have to wait on a ruling from some government czar.

Over the past decade, Canadian health care expenditures have grown at a rate significantly higher than that of the growth in the economy and the growth in combined federal-provincial tax revenues. However, allocating an increasing amount of resources to health care does not necessarily lead to...

A health care system is efficient when an increase in spending results in significant improvements in the health of a population. We test the relative efficiency of public and private health care spending in reducing infant and child mortality using cross-national data for 163 countries. There...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply options to the pharmaceutical markets to solute the corruption and counterfeit drugs in emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach – This article proposes a framework for using pharmaceutical options. The application of options to...

This paper represents the text of a lecture invited by The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS). In nontechnical terms it explains certain pitfalls involved in real life public health studies concerned with exposures to low-level irradiation. Two particular recently-announced studies are...

This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of screening women of childbearing age for HIV. The analysis is based on a dynamic compartmental model of the HIV epidemic that incorporates disease transmission and progression over time, behavioral changes, and effects of screening and associated...

Within the context of the U.K. background (public expenditure is being severely curtailed, at a local level health services and social services are controlled by separate organisations and there are many groups of the population for whom a number of acceptable treatments, or methods of caring,...

This paper evaluates effects of health insurance on preventive efforts among diabetics in Colombia. Type 2 diabetes patients show low compliance with preventive measures. Economic theory suggests that insurance reduces self-protection by reducing curative care costs. On the supply side, if...