Dr Andrew Walker, an expert in health economics at Glasgow University, highlighted the problem in a report on hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
"Everybody is using these databases to sell you stuff, " says Daryl Wansink, director of health economics for the Blue Cross unit.
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In particular, I focus on health economics and healthcare reform.
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The FDP plan would mark a decided shift toward a "two-class health-care system, " warns Gerd Glaeske, director of health economics and policy at the University of Bremen's Center for Social Policy Research.
People use four times as many outpatient mental health services when an insurer picks up the tab as they do when they pay themselves, according to a study in the Journal of Health Economics.
What we need is the political will, starting with a full health economics analysis of the costs and benefits of effective weight management in diabetes and other conditions where obesity is a significant factor.
Malcolm Rees, a lecturer in health economics from the University of Buckingham, said that the SARS illness, which has so far killed almost 80 people worldwide, is likely to turn into a global epidemic.
The authors, Dr Malcolm Kendrick and Dr Kian Johnson, from Macclesfield health economics analysts Interphase, say that previously the cost of beta interferon has been calculated on the assumption that its benefits do not last beyond the first two years.
Allowing both workers and retirees to have health savings accounts would profoundly and fundamentally alter the dynamics of health care economics.
Well, Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt, who studies health care economics and blogs about it for the New York Times, has derived what he calls a technical definition of hospital charges.
At the Congressional Budget Office, Orszag hired specialists in health-care economics and turned the institution into a clearinghouse of information about rising health-care costs.
So, how good are public health experts at economics?
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As more physicians leave active practice, it must be appreciated that a focus on the economics of health care is not the only, and perhaps not even the most important, reason for their disillusionment.
The House of Lords is therefore a revising chamber, and peers - many of whom are experts in a particular field of public policy, such as economics or health - regularly ask the government to re-think important legislation.
Mr. MORAD SZEDADINOV(ph) (ex-Political Prisoner): (Through Translator) It is extremely important that he raises these questions with human rights, democracy development, torture, and specifically a couple of prisoners, specifically, former Minister of Economics whose health condition is critical at the moment.
This is a quickly fading paradigm which has held us in its grip for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has affected every aspect of our human life from politics , economics , health and religion to population migration, wars, and scientific development.
This runs counter to how people without advanced degrees in economics judge the health of the economy.
Understanding what wellness companies are or are not delivering to employers has several key implications for understanding the economics of digital health more broadly.
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The 13 youthful participants in the urban agriculture Challenge come from a wide range of different disciplines, including architecture, creative writing, economics and public health.
The broadcasts include unbiased news reports, call-in shows, English lessons, music, commentary on Chinese affairs and feature programs on everything from health and family matters to economics and the American way of life.
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Plastic surgery has been affected profoundly by the economics of publicly funded health care in the West.
Free-market economics can work in health care, just as it does everywhere else.
And it is put in place incentives that work toward impoverishing the quality and economics of our current health-care system.
NGOs, scientific organizations and private companies specialised in telemedicine and e-health scientific research, space applications, economics and development participated in the discussion.
Powell suspects that anchor tenants play a similarly powerful community role in other areas of economics, too, and health care may be no exception.
Global health commodities obey the same laws of economics as any other commodities: shaping markets to bring supply and demand into alignment will yield significant improvements in the delivery and availability of key products such as oxytocin and magnesium sulfate.
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But Diana Owen, an associate professor of political science and director of American studies at Georgetown University, said the public isn't as concerned about the economics-driven case to overhaul health care.
Mr McFadden's interests include the economics of transport, energy, the environment, health, development and industrial production.
Sperling, a senior economics-staff member, is in charge of budget, tax and health-care issues.
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