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Infectious diseases are is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and have been even more important historically. This paper reviews recent research in economic epidemiology. Specifically, it discusses the occurrence of infectious diseases and the effects of public health...
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Medicine theft is a leading cause of inadequate healthcare. Audits of public health supply chains suggest that up to a third of medicines go missing in low-income countries, disproportionately affecting those facing greater health risks and poverty. Despite much investment, policy-makers...
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This paper investigates the impact of monitoring institutions on market outcomes in health care. Health care markets … overcharging. We introduce two types of costly monitoring, endogenous and exogenous. When monitoring detects misbehavior …, physicians have to pay a fine. Endogenous monitoring can be requested by patients, whereas exogenous monitoring is performed …
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