31 de gener 2013

Plausible stories about the future

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Sustainable Health Systems - Visions, Strategies, Critical Uncertainties and Scenarios Last week the "health output" of the Dav...
30 de gener 2013

Pharma confidential

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We have just entered a new world. A confidential pricing market has been created!.  A complete new pharmaceutical market that Adam Smith cou...
29 de gener 2013

On predictive modeling

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A better understanding of population morbidity allows to predict how such population will evolve. Currently there is an increasing interest...
28 de gener 2013

Health disparities

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We all know that there are differences in health and health services throughout geography. If you want to check the extent of such differenc...
23 de gener 2013

On food and public health policies

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Is the food industry in the driver's seat? The role of stakeholders in health policy requires transparency. Otherwise any potential re...
22 de gener 2013

Years behind the leader

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U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health This latest report of IOM-NAS highlights the outcomes of a health s...
21 de gener 2013

Stop the blame game

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La renovación de la atención primaria desde la consulta Nowadays, those in contact with physicians in publicly funded health care are use...
18 de gener 2013

A new tax conundrum

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The anouncement of a potential increase in VAT rate for health care products that currently are under the reduced tax rate, a shift from 10%...
17 de gener 2013

The outcomes and the process in health policy

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The tobacco ban in Spain: how it happened, a vision from inside the government Politicians and high level officials often complain about t...
16 de gener 2013

Squeezing the lemon

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Now we know that 5% of population has paid one third of pharmaceutical copayments that  started six months ago (one euro per prescription). ...
15 de gener 2013

Road safety at the top of Health in All Policies

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Cost savings associated with 10 years of road safety policies in Catalonia You can get a clear understanding of the impressive results of ...
14 de gener 2013

Beware of the framing effect

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Inevitably the debates over health reform are rooted in what we currently observe. And our perception is subject to be selected according to...
07 de gener 2013

Una vida en bona salut

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Saber de què emmalalteixen i de què moren les poblacions, és la primera preocupació de l'epidemiologia. I també ho ha de ser per a un ec...
21 de desembre 2012

Ensucrats fins al capdamunt (2)

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La novetat del moment és que s'ha anunciat la introducció d'un impost sobre begudes ensucrades en excés i es recaptarien uns 22 mi...