Increased health care spending has placed pressure on public and private payers to prioritize spending. Cost …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible. …

In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared that novel influenza A (nH1N1) had reached pandemic status … worldwide. The response to the spread of this virus by the public and by the public health community was immediate and …, used by public health officials to aid in making many decisions including vaccination policy, ignore avoidance responses in …

Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended …. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP …, and have proposed a plethora of interventions to raise adherence. However, health economics provides little explicit …

In 2008, the OECD launched a survey to collect information on the health systems characteristics of member countries … organise the population coverage against health risks and the financing of health spending. It depicts the organisation of … health care delivery, focusing on the public/private mix of health care provision, provider payment schemes, user choice and …