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Critical comments on health economics and policy
30 de novembre 2016
Are we reaching the flat-of-the-curve medicine?
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Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 Fifty years ago, Victor Fuchs wrote : “Although many health services definitely improve health, in other...
29 de novembre 2016
Populist health politics, the ultimate nightmare in the post-truth society
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What is populism? Nowadays populism is on the rise, unfortunately. Politicians embrace such option because we are in the post-truth societ...
08 de novembre 2016
Genome editing: a major breakthrough in life sciences
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Redesigning Life: How genome editing will transform the world While in a previous post I claimed that genome editing could be a " wea...
06 de novembre 2016
Taxing the rich to feed the leviathan (2)
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Once upon a time there was a country that 2% of the population (143.092 citizens) earned 25% of total income of the country and paid 36%% ...
26 d’octubre 2016
Being loyal to your health system
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Entitats d’assegurança sanitària lliure de Catalunya 2014 Your country may have decided that publicly funded health coverage is mandatory...
24 d’octubre 2016
When voters do not control the course of public policy
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DEMOCRACY FOR REALISTS Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government These are tough days for voters. Specially for those that believ...
23 d’octubre 2016
The times are changing back: hospital nationalization returns
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Let's imagine you are the owner of a hospital. Basically you provide private care (85%) and you have a specific contract with the public...
21 d’octubre 2016
What explains economic growth? (2)
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Deirdre McCloskey presenting "How the World Grew Rich: The Liberal Idea, Not Accumulation or Exploitation" at Nobel Conference...
20 d’octubre 2016
What explains economic growth?
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Bourgeois Equality. How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World This is the great question that Deirdre Nansen McCloskey t...
19 d’octubre 2016
The coming wave of new health technologies
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AHRQ Healthcare Horizon Scanning System Report of a Pilot Project: Rapid Cost Analyses of Selected Potential High-Impact Intervention Repor...
17 d’octubre 2016
How bad health regulation leads to unsafety medical devices in Europe
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Comparison of rates of safety issues and reporting of trial outcomes for medical devices approved in the European Unión and United States: c...
14 d’octubre 2016
Beyond the hype: the controversy over wearables
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Effect of Wearable Technology Combined With a Lifestyle Intervention on Long-term Weight Loss If you want to know if some device is effect...
13 d’octubre 2016
European Union Health: in the middle of nowhere
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Joint Report on Health Care and Long-Term Care Systems and Fiscal Sustainability If there is an example of how one part of an organization...
06 d’octubre 2016
A new missed opportunity
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After all these years, a new proposal for regulating in vitro diagnostics and medical devices in EU is available. Current regulation was e...
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