20 d’octubre 2015

The Theranos contretemps as a serious scandal

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Last Thursday WSJ released a long article on Theranos clinical lab. In this blog you may check my February and July posts on this firm...
19 d’octubre 2015

Precision medicine in an outdated regulation

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Specially dedicated to european politicians, this was my op-ed in Diario Médico last week: La medicina de precisión en una regulación obs...
15 d’octubre 2015

Disentangling ageing and health

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World report on Ageing and Health Although it may surprise, there is no clear pattern to indicate that elderly people  always utilise more...
14 d’octubre 2015

A cause and consequence of progress (again)

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Today I would like to suggest you check my previous posts on Angus Deaton , the economics Nobel prize winner. And if you have more time, a c...
09 d’octubre 2015

Using behavioral insights for policy

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Social and Behavioral Sciences Team 2015 Annual Report Some weeks ago, an executive order by President Obama boosted the application of b...
07 d’octubre 2015

Cost-effectiveness of public health interventions

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The case for investing in public health The evidence shows that a wide range of preventive  approaches are cost-effective, including inter...
03 d’octubre 2015

The healthcare funding conundrum (once again) (2)

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Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems. Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives Sustainability defined by OECD (p.25): The OECD define...
02 d’octubre 2015

The healthcare funding conundrum (once again)

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Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems. Bridging Health and Finance Perspectives Forget economic forecasts, most of them have failed many...
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 ...