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The Limitations of QALY: A Literature Review After 50 years, valuing health using QALYs is still a daunting task. Basically the debate ove...

Are You What You Eat? Healthy Behaviour and Risk Preferences I am not strictly a fan of economic experiments. They are useful, but usually...

The effect of prices on nutrition: Comparing the impact of product-and nutrient-specific taxes Nowadays, many people is asking about evide...

Medical Practice Variations The title of this post is not original, it is really from a book published in 1990 , 27 years ago! And Wennber...

Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995–2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-...

L’expérience américaine des Accountable Care Organizations:des enseignements pour la France ? After all the efforts, ACOs coverage in US i...

Methods in comparative effectiveness research If comparative effectiveness is the new fram for valuing health technologies, then we need t...

What does improving population health really mean? Population health means the health outcomes of a defined group of people, as well as th...

A new twist on epigenetics If epigenomics is crucial to discard the genetic predestination paradigm, now we can add a new 'omics to th...

Exercise contagion in a global social network Disciplines as diverse as economics, sociology, medicine, computer science, political scienc...

Francis Fukuyama predicted 25 years ago the end of history, the triumph of liberal democracy and the arrival of post-ideological world, Now...

An Evidence Framework for Genetic Testing National Academy of Sciences and Food and Drug Administration don't talk to each other. At t...

Cost effective but unaffordable: an emerging challenge for health systems There are big questions unanswered in health policy, and the soc...

GENE THERAPY: Understanding the Science, Assessing the Evidence, and Paying for Value Approximately 12-14 investigational gene therapies ...