Recent events have, once again, catapulted microbes into the forefront of media crisis-reporting. No sooner than the wandering TB-carrier evading the CDC's dragnet fades from our newspapers, (along with the sudden emergence and disappearance of SARS, the threat from Saddam's smallpox, and the...

Objectives: Our contribution aims to explore the different ways in which early economic data can inform public health policy decisions on new medical technologies. Methods: A broad explorative literature research was conducted to detect methodological contributions covering the health policy...

Few biblical stories capture the American penchant for individualism better than that of David versus Goliath. The American experience is inextricably linked to the celebration of individuals, who, like David, triumph against all odds. Virtually all aspects of American law are highly affected...

We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. Malaria eradication resulted in gains in literacy and primary school completion rates of approximately 12...

Background Despite the intrinsic value of scientific disciplines, such as Economics, it is appropriate to gauge the impact of its applications on social welfare, or at least - Health Economics' (HE) case - its influence on health policy and management. Methods The three relevant features of...

Obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions around the globe and especially Canada. Obesity carries the risk of obtaining many other chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 2 diabetes. As a result, obesity carries a great economic burden in Canada as well as its provinces such as Alberta....

Objectives. To determine the impact of the national health strategy for England, 'Health of the Nation' (HOTN) at the local level; the mechanisms by which this was achieved; and to provide lessons for the new strategy, 'Saving lives: our healthier nation'. Design. Case studies. Semi-structured...

This essay, written for an international readership, concisely connects the public policy goals underlying U.S. health care reform to the structure of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and identifies some of the constitutional, legal, and political considerations that will...

This Article examines the implications of US - Clove Cigarettes and subsequent technical barriers to trade (TBT) disputes for tobacco control and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) associated with alcohol and poor diet. In US - Clove Cigarettes, the Appellate Body of the World Trade...

On October 26, 2012, the University of Akron School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property and Technology hosted its Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum. In attendance were thirteen legal scholars with expertise and an interest in IP and public health who met to discuss problems and potential...