This paper analyzes the impact of Globalization as one of the main reasons of the fast spread of Wuhan-COVID-2019 worldwide. We divided globalization into three large pillars how Globalization works worldwide followed by: (a.) the institutional, legal, and political approach of Globalization;...

People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R&D spending on developing-country diseases is almost non-existent. To explain these empirical...

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we present evidence that countries around the world still...

Average service quality perception toward Government hospitals lead to increasing demand for good quality Government health care in Mayiladuthurai Taluk. Observing the growth of private health care sector, highly number of patients get satisfied with the service quality of private hospitals in...

OECD reports have become influential in Mexico. The “2016 OECD Review of Health Systems, Mexico” is analyzed in this note from an industrial perspective. Health reform has been debated in Mexico for decades. However, the map of suppliers and insurers, as well as of costs and rules of access...

This chapter addresses the interface between health and intellectual property (IP). The chapter provides an introduction to the forms of IP principally as they relate to health products, and describes the international legal framework in which IP is situated. It addresses the ways in which IP...

Healthcare in European countries is provided through different systems run at national levels. The aim of the article is to evaluate selected health care indicators in EU countries, while accentuating similarities and differences between the EU countries in the context of health care systems....

In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women to make medical appointments with a digital...

While the burden of non-communicable diseases is rising in low- and middle-income countries, the uptake of screening for these diseases remains low. We conducted a community-based RCT in Indonesia to assess whether personalized and targeted text messages can increase the demand for existing...

Over the early twentieth century, urban centers adopted full-time public health departments. We show that opening full-time administration had little observable impact on mortality. We then attempt to determine why health departments were ineffective. Our results suggest that achievements in...