Following endorsement by WHO, the World Bank, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the drive towards universal health coverage (UHC) is now one of the most prominent global health policies. As countries progress towards UHC, they are forced to make difficult choices about how to...

This paper discusses the right to health recognised in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 and the growing judicialization of health in Brazil that followed, i.e. the growing number of court orders requiring the state to provide to individual claimants health products and services not included in...

We argue that deliberative decision-making that is inclusive, transparent and accountable can contribute to more trustworthy and legitimate decisions on difficult ethical questions and political trade-offs during the pandemic and beyond

This report explores trends and lessons learned from hybrid organizations pursuingenvironmental sustainability missions. It hypothesizes that hybrid organizations,defined here as entities that are market-oriented and mission-centered, canpositively contribute to some of humanity’s most...

In this paper, we compare the powers of several discrete goodness-of-fit test statistics considered by Steele and Chaseling [10] under the null hypothesis of a ‘zig-zag’ distribution. The results suggest that the Discrete Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic is generally more powerful for the...

A key diagnostic in the analysis of linear regression models is whether the fitted model is appropriate for the observed data. The classical lack of fit test is used for testing the adequacy of a linear regression model when replicates are available. While many efforts have been made in finding...

Minitab's data subsetting lack of fit test (denoted XLOF) is a combination of Burn and Ryan's test and Utts' test for testing lack of fit in linear regression models. As an alternative to the classical or pure error lack of fit test, it does not require replicates of predictor variables....

Portuguese Abstract: Nos últimos anos constata-se no Brasil um aumento do número de decisões judiciais obrigando o poder público a fornecer medicamentos, insumos, equipamentos e cirurgias. Os juízes tendem a desconsiderar o impacto orçamentário de suas decisões e entendem que todos os...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo analisa os temas da escassez de recursos, custos dos direitos e cláusula de reserva do possível na jurisprudência do supremo tribunal federal brasileiro. Por meio do estudo dessas decisões, procuro, primeiramente, descobrir em que tipo de matéria esses temas...

Portuguese Abstract: Este trabalho discute as implicações da decisão do STF que amplia o número de beneficiários do Benefício de Prestação Continuada ao flexibilizar o limite de renda para seu recebimento. A Corte realizou uma escolha distributiva e política com custos de oportunidade...