Este artículo tiene como fin realizar una aproximación teórico-conceptual al tema de la focalización del gasto público en salud en Colombia que permita luego formular una pregunta de investigación en el campo de la economía de la Salud. El gobierno colombiano, a través de la ley 100 de...

There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...

Once a humble, beloved, charity-based arm of the healthcare industry, hospice is now a multi-billion dollar industry, funded almost exclusively by Medicare, run by for-profit corporations answering to private equity investors and Wall Street, and more and more frequently plagued by fraud and...

Public health emergencies from natural disasters, infection, and man-made threats can present ethically or legally challenging questions about who will receive scarce resources. Federal and state governments have offered little guidance on how to prioritize distribution of limited resources....

This report identifies and analyses trends in the local production of medicines in developing countries and related technology transfer. The objective is to assist the World Health Organization (WHO) in its support for Member States in implementing the global strategy and plan of action on...

The Royal Decree 1015/2009, June 19th 2009 (RDDMSE) aims to facilitate the access to drugs – the drug in question should be subject to a marketing authorisation application or must be undergoing clinical trials – before approval, in Spain, in patients with a chronical or severely...

Recent events have, once again, catapulted microbes into the forefront of media crisis-reporting. No sooner than the wandering TB-carrier evading the CDC's dragnet fades from our newspapers, (along with the sudden emergence and disappearance of SARS, the threat from Saddam's smallpox, and the...

This is a research proposal for a project to be completed during a part-time Non-Residential Lab Fellowship from the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. The term of the project would be between September 2013 and June 2014. Complex ethical situations, such as end-of-life medical treatment...

High-cost, low-value care permeates much of the American health care system. Congress has begun attempting to address the issue by provisions in the Affordable Care Act encouraging a shift from pay-for-volume to pay-for-performance practices, and by funding clinical effectiveness research...

Despite a culture of innovation, the U.S. health care system has been markedly deficient in its implementation of information technology (IT). Although recent initiatives have endeavored to remedy this shortcoming, fragmentation, high costs, information asymmetries, and evolving regulatory...