31 de gener 2015

The challenge of setting fair priorities

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Public views on principles for health care priority setting: Findings of a European cross-country study using Q methodology The clash betw...
30 de gener 2015

The satisfaction paradox and the need for a dose of realism

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A paradox is a "situation that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible". This...
29 de gener 2015

Stratified medicine in Europe

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Stratified medicine in European Medicines Agency licensing: a systematic review of predictive biomarkers The potential of predictive bioma...
28 de gener 2015

Healthy behavior strategies

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Healthy Behavior Change in Practical Settings This is the article to read today. If you don't have enough time, have a look at this f...
27 de gener 2015

Psychological wellbeing and health

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Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing What is the relationship between wellbeing and age?. This is precisely what this article tries t...
26 de gener 2015

Deciding by default

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Choosing Not to Choose. Understanding the Value of Choice The core of the application of behavioural economics to decision making on healt...
22 de gener 2015

Knowing what works

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A systematic review of barriers to and facilitators of the use of evidence by policymakers Evidence-based health policy should be grounde...
21 de gener 2015

Incentives, a modern frame (2)

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Ética de los incentivos a profesionales sanitarios Revisitng this report released 5 years ago, and comparing some statements with a former...
19 de gener 2015

Incentives, a modern frame

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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives I've found extremely appealing the chapter 2 of the book "Strings Attached...
18 de gener 2015

Data, data, data

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That's the buzzword: big data. You'll find it in the top articles of 2014 in Health Affairs or in the Forbes Health Care Summit. T...
16 de gener 2015

The politics of calories

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Why Calories Count Marion Nestle says in her book: In some ways, the calorie environment could not have been more brilliantly constructe...
15 de gener 2015

The pivotal role of MSF in global health

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Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders MSF: how a humanitarian charity found itself leading the world’s response to...
14 de gener 2015

The growing evidence on compression of morbidity

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Health, functioning, and disability in older adults—present status and future implications There is currently a wide debate about chronic ...
13 de gener 2015

Fasten seat belts (3)

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My former posts (1) and (2) alerted about the end of drug pricing as we have known and the begining of an opaque world where nobody knows ...