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Critical comments on health economics and policy
31 de desembre 2015
A professional transformation is already under way
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THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSIONS: how technology will transform the work of human experts The concept of professional job is changing. A new ...
17 de desembre 2015
A much-needed start: soda tax
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Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) Obesity is a top concern on public health. Personal and collective responsibilities are li...
09 de desembre 2015
Lab tests and biomarkers regulation: a pending topic
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La regulació de proves diagnòstiques i biomarcadors: una assignatura pendent Pere Ibern Centre de Recerca en Economia i Salut. U...
27 de novembre 2015
Why healthcare providers merge?
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Scaling Care: An analysis of the structural, social and symbolic dimensions of scale in healthcare The specific answer to this question d...
26 de novembre 2015
How universal is universal coverage?
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An analysis of perceived access to health care in Europe:How universal is universal coverage? Two different realities are intertwined: hea...
25 de novembre 2015
MABS in history of medicine
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The Lock and Key of Medicine Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare While reading FT this summer I came across an ar...
24 de novembre 2015
Alcohol and health
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Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease, cancer, injury, admission to hospital, and mortality: a prospective cohort study The relat...
23 de novembre 2015
Disposable income trends
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From: EU Statistics and book .
05 de novembre 2015
Healthy longevity
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Health at a Glance 2015 Every year OECD updates health database. The latest one was released yesterday. Japan, Spain and Switzerland are a...
03 de novembre 2015
Physicians' quality: incentives and information
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In the USA, the Affordable Care Act requires the federal government to post information about physician performance and quality of care on a...
02 de novembre 2015
Owners and managers in state owned firms
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Governance issues are at the center of current debates in public and private firms. Unfortunately, too often as a cosmetic perspective. The ...
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...
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