Abstract Background In 2015, the Swedish government in an unprecedented move decided
to allocate 150 million€ to provide funding for new drugs for hepatitis C. This was triggered …

BACKGROUND: US health care reform mandates the reduction of wasteful health care
spending while maintaining quality of care. Introducing new drugs into crowded therapeutic …

There has been perennial concern about high and rapidly rising drug prices in the United
States and in other economies. The pharmaceutical industry and others defend these high …

Mortality and life expectancy at birth are considered some of the most important aspects of
human economic development. Over the last three centuries, both of these indicators have …

Ожидаемая продолжительность жизни при рождении и смертность рассматриваются
как важнейшие аспекты экономического развития человечества. За три последних …

The expected utility model predicts that a risk averse consumer, facing the probability p of a
loss of $ L associated with illness, is willing to pay at least the expected loss, $ pL, in …

In this commentary we debunk a number of the most common misconceptions about cancer
treatment, such as claims that the war on cancer has been a failure and that treatment costs …

This paper examines the incentive to adopt a new technology resulting from common
payment systems, namely mixed cost reimbursement and DRG reimbursement. Adoption is …

A long-standing literature recognizes that an efficient solution in correcting a consumption
externality is applying subsidies or taxes that align private incentives with social ones. An …

Capitolo I-Organizzazione, diritto di scelta e mercati sanitariproblemi e decisioni
dell'acquirente...................................................... 3 2. Capitolo II-Informazione, comunicazione e …