Richard Rahn, former Chief Economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is very explicit about the downsides of an economic shutdown for future generations. Some government officials, politicians and commentators keep saying words to the effect, “we need to spend whatever it takes to stop the...
People flock here for the on-demand care, advanced technology, and expertise in our system. But if you are an average American, as the great healthcare economist Uwe Reinhardt titled his seminal healthcare work, you are Priced Out. We spend the most of any developed nation. But, because ...
Since medicine, and healthcare in general, is constantly expanding, so are the job opportunities. With a degree in health economics, someone could work as a health economist, health data analyst, or a nursing or research program manager. With a public health deg...
72 of the retrieved studies were conducted in the US, four in Norway, two each in Chile and Korea, and one each in Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Uruguay. We grouped the studied interventions into the following main categories: Financial incentives...
both beneficiaries of this practice. Medical tourism is expected to grow 30 per cent annually. The region boasts well-known destinations for medical tourism (e.g., Singapore for diagnostics of cancer andIndiafor cardiology and orthopaedics;MED, 2013;ReportLinker, 2014;Shah, 2011;The Economist, ...
The interconnections between health and the economy are well known and well documented. The funding gap for realizing SDG3 for good health and well-being, however, remains vast. Simultaneously, economic growth, as expressed and measured in SDG8, continue
According to the “glass-ceiling index” of the Economist (2016) based on the latest cross-national data, Korea is the worst place to be a working woman among 30 OECD countries. Korea has the largest gender wage gap and Korean women are least likely to be in senior managerial positions, ...
160 The CSDH was famously derided by The Economist as "baying at the moon" in calling for changes to global im- balances in the distribution of power and money that lie at the heart of health inequalities,186 and it seems likely that this assessment would have been shared by many ...
While the United States has largely considered itself as the greatest country in the world for the last few decades, the statistics tell us that there are areas where things can definitely be improved.
These findings have been corroborated by the French economist Thomas Piketty and his associates [30, 31], after analysing massive income tax data cover- ing periods from 15 years (China) to 132 years (Norway), and 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, Latin ...