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A Priceless Review, David Thomas
A Priceless Review, David Thomas
David Chandler Thomas, PhD
The book, Priceless, is chock full of ideas, many of which are undoubtedly useful. The style is readable, with enough anecdotes to keep the reader’s interest. Unfortunately, the book is almost as confusing as the health-care system. There are too many moving parts, too many clever ideas, and not enough high level insights into how to cut the Gordian health-care knot. As hard as it is to make changes in the U.S. health-care system, it is unlikely the author’s suggestions will find a listening ear.
Q-Ing For Health – A New Approach To Eliciting The Public’S Views On Health Care Resource Allocation, Rachel M. Baker, John Wildman, Helen Mason, Cam Donaldson
Q-Ing For Health – A New Approach To Eliciting The Public’S Views On Health Care Resource Allocation, Rachel M. Baker, John Wildman, Helen Mason, Cam Donaldson
Professor Rachel Baker
The elicitation of societal views about health care priority setting is an important, contemporary research area and there are a number of studies which apply either qualitative techniques or quantitative preference elicitation methods. However there are methodological challenges in connecting qualitative information (what perspectives exist about a subject) with quantitative questions (to what extent are those perspectives ‘supported’ in a wider population). In this paper we present an integrated, mixed-methods approach to the elicitation of public perspectives in two, linked studies applying Q methodology. In the first study we identify three broad viewpoints on the subject of health priorities. In …
Something In The Water: Contaminated Drinking Water And Infant Health, Janet Currie, Joshua Graff Zivin, Katherine Meckel, Matthew Neidell, Wolfram Schlenker
Something In The Water: Contaminated Drinking Water And Infant Health, Janet Currie, Joshua Graff Zivin, Katherine Meckel, Matthew Neidell, Wolfram Schlenker
Joshua Graff Zivin
No abstract provided.
Should Global Health Be Tailored Toward The Rich? Altruism And Efficient R&D For Neglected Diseases, Anupam Bapu Jena, Stéphane Mechoulan, Tomas J. Philipson
Should Global Health Be Tailored Toward The Rich? Altruism And Efficient R&D For Neglected Diseases, Anupam Bapu Jena, Stéphane Mechoulan, Tomas J. Philipson
Stéphane Mechoulan
We analyze the problem of incentivizing research and development (R&D) into developing world disease from an economic efficiency perspective. We view the problem as how to best promote R&D into goods with positive external effects in the sense that medicines that directly affect the health of the poor also indirectly affect the utility of the altruistic “rich.” We demonstrate why existing policy proposals – such as price concessions by manufacturers – adversely impact the poor by placing the burden of R&D only on innovators rather than all altruists in the rich world. We offer policy solutions that are based on …