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Finally the government has decided to organise genetic counseling and testing. A recent instruction determines who does what. As you may re...

World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior Understanding human behavior is one of the main scientific endevours of our cur...

Let's think of two countries artificially separated by political borders. Both have the same income per capita (~27,700 €) and belong to...

Valuing vaccination A PNAS article sets a broader perspective on valuing vaccines. It is of interest in light of current difteria case. M...

Let Me Heal. The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine We usually emphasize the level of resources when we assess the re...

Population health Systems: Going beyond integrated care In this blog I have mentioned several times the works by Kindig on population hea...

Waiting for the opportune moment: the tobacco industry and marijuana legalization Is it possible to prevent another public health catastro...

Some weeks ago I was posting on "Evidence-based economics going mainstream" , in fact the title was only taken from the book by T...

Tackling Harmful Alcohol Use Tha last OECD report is focused on health impact of alcohol and what should we do to avoid harmful effects. ...

Fit mind, fit job. From Evidence to Practice in Mental Health and Work The social and economic impact of mental illness requires a new app...

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism Acemoglu and Robinson provide the best review - to my knowledge- of Piketty 's ...

Misbehaving. The making of Behavioral Economics Once upon a time there was a scientific discipline created under the assumption that peopl...

Lemons or Cherries? Asymmetric Information in the German Private Long-term Care Insurance Market Is there adverse or advantageous selectio...

Regulación y capacidad de elección en los sistemas de salud   Este texto completo es una transcripción editada y revisada de una confere...