26 de setembre 2015

Measuring population health

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Morbilidad, utilización de recursos y costes sanitarios en la comarca del Baix Empordà In this blog I've explained many times that if...
25 de setembre 2015

Health policy: what works?

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Successes and Failures of Health Policy in Europe. Four decades of divergent trends and converging challenges Three questions to answer: ...
24 de setembre 2015

The modeling approach to health decisions

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Applying Modeling to Improve Health and Economic Policy Decisions in the Americas: The Case of Noncommunicable Diseases On the role of mod...
19 de setembre 2015

The size of income inequality (2)

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Source: World Economic Forum: Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2015
17 de setembre 2015

Epigenetics contribution to clarify disease mechanisms

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Epigenetics at the Crossroads of Genes and the Environment You may find an updated definition of epigenetics in this JAMA article:  Epi...
16 de setembre 2015

Ownership and access to medical data

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Unpatients—why patients should own their medical data Eric Topol says in Nature Biotechnology: Today, in the United States, health data ...
04 de setembre 2015

Cardiovascular disease and diabetes: progress and prospects

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OECD Health Policy Studies Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes A recent OECD report highlights the huge improvement on cardiovascular dise...
28 d’agost 2015

Healthy life expectancy: the key indicator

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 1...
26 d’agost 2015

Beware of healthcare providers consolidation

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The Potential Hazards of Hospital Consolidation Implications for Quality, Access, and Price The key message:   With the current most s...
25 d’agost 2015

Tackling obesity: the toolbox

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Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking World Cancer Research Fund International N...
07 d’agost 2015

European health regulation on lab tests, the final round?

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Medical devices: Council getting ready for talks with EP Last June 15th, there was a small but significant step towards the final agreemen...
06 d’agost 2015

The size of income inequality

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  Income declared to tax authorities, not actual income. Selected statements: 3% of citizens account for 30% of tax collection! ...
05 d’agost 2015

The price of cancer drugs, where is the limit?

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04 d’agost 2015

Stratified medicine: defining the size of the market

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE STRATIFIED ECONOMICS OF STRATIFIED MEDICINE Trusheim and Berndt provide an excellent overview of the economics of str...