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Access to Cancer Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - An Essential Part of Global Cancer Control

Knaul, Felicia; Anderson, Benjamin; Bradley, Colin; … - 2012

Cancer is exacting severe costs from societies that are wholly unprepared to address it, and this toll will become even … heavier in future years. By 2020, cancer is expected to kill more than twice as many people worldwide as it did at the turn of … cervical cancer alone each year (Garcia et al., 2007). The poorer regions of the world also account for more than 90% of …

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Two Models in Global Health Ethics

Schuklenk, Udo; Lowry, Christopher - 2009

This paper examines two strategies aimed at demonstrating that moral obligations to improve global health exist. The ‘humanitarian model’ stresses that all human beings, regardless of affluence or global location, are fundamentally the same in terms of moral status. This model argues that...

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A new approach to the economics of health care : a conference

Olson, Mancur (ed.) - 1981

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Allocation of resources in medical care from an economic viewpoint : remarks to the XXIX world assembly of the world medical association and commentary

Newhouse, Joseph P.; Goldberg, George A. - 1976

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Health and access to care : why it is necessary and urgent to switch from a global public good approach to a commons based approach

Coriat, Benjamin; Orsi, Fabienne; Alessandrini, Jean … - 2023

During the Covid 19 Pandemic, there have been countless calls for the creation of ''global public goods'' or ''global commons'' issued by a variety of actors with sometimes diametrically opposed views, as if the two notions had the same meaning. And indeed, even today these notions are still...

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Government failure : society, markets and rules

Dolfsma, Wilfred - 2013

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Health and Inequality

O'Donnell, Owen - 2013

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of...

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Medical Innovation, Life Expectancy, and Economic Growth

Kuhn, Michael; Minniti, Antonio; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2023

Despite an increasing recognition of the importance of health for economic growth, there is still a lack of understanding of the role of medical innovation in this process. Specifically, what are the causal effects of medical innovation on economic growth and which non-linearities matter in this...

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International journal of health care finance and economics

Norwell, Mass. [u.a.] : Springer; anfangs: Boston, … - 1.2001 - 14.2014

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Health and inequality

Rosa Dias, Pedro (contributor) - 2013 - 1. ed.

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