Objective: To estimate the macro-economic impact of pandemic flu on European economies and to assess the importance of a rapid nationalised intervention in the event of an outbreak. Motivation: There is a positive relationship between a nation's health and economic prosperity. However, in...

Public policy debates, about HIV and prevention policy, have tended to occupy one of two extreme positions derived from either rational choice and or structuralists theories. This paper argues that the concept of hope may offer a way through this policy and paradigmatic log-jam. Hope is an...