Preconditions for efficiency and affordability in competitive healthcare markets: Are they fulfilled in Belgium, Germany...
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Are Tuition Freezes an Effective Strategy for Making Higher Education Affordable?
One of the strategies implemented by institutions of higher education to combat rising costs is to implement tuition freezes. Universities that implement tuition freezes have seen notable benefits, such as increased enrollment or lower amounts of debt for students graduating from their programs. However, tuition freezes also may lead to increased f...
Capacity of community health centers to treat snakebite envenoming in indigenous territories of the Brazilian Amazon.
...Published in Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology
The deaths from and morbidities associated with snakebites - amputations, loss of function in the limb, visible scarring or tissue damage - have a vast economic, social, and psychological impact on indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, especially children, and represent a real and pressing health crisis in this population. Snakebite clini...
Importance of aligning the implementation of new payment models for innovative pharmaceuticals in European countries
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INTRODUCTION: The uptake of complex technologies and platforms has resulted in several challenges in the pricing and reimbursement of innovative pharmaceuticals. To address these challenges, plenty of concepts have already been described in the scientific literature about innovative value judgment or payment models, which are either (1) remaining t...
Cost and affordability of healthy diets in Vietnam
Objectives: To estimate the cost and affordability of healthy diets recommended by the 2016-2020 Vietnamese food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG). Design: Cross-sectional analysis. The Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) indicator was used to estimate the lowest cost of healthy diets and compare the cost differences by food group, region and seasonality. ...
På väg mot bostadsmarknaden : En undersökning av överkomligheten för unga vuxna i Sverige / On the road to the housing m...
Studien behandlar unga vuxnas överkomlighet på bostadsmarknaden i Sverige, och strävar efter en förståelse för hur olika faktorer integrerar med överkomligheten för unga vuxna att ta sig in på bostadsmarknaden. Samt att bilda oss en uppfattning om hur olika preferenser och prioriteringar bidrar till överkomligheten på bostadsmarknaden och hur det p...
Disability, equity, and measurements of livability: A scoping review.
Published in Disability and health journal
Livability is a concept commonly featured in health research to help shape public policy decisions and improve local place settings. Although widely used, it is a contested concept known for its ambiguity and inconsistency of measurements. Other criticisms include the lack of equity perspectives and the underrepresentation of people with disabiliti...
The Mortgage‐Cash Premium Puzzle
ABSTRACT: All‐cash homebuyers account for one‐third of U.S. home purchases between 1980 and 2017. We use multiple data sets and research designs to robustly estimate that mortgaged buyers pay an 11% premium over all‐cash buyers to compensate home sellers for mortgage transaction frictions. A dynamic, representative‐seller model implies only a 3% pr...
Disability, equity, and measurements of livability: A scoping review
Background: Livability is a concept commonly featured in health research to help shape public policy decisions and improve local place settings. Although widely used, it is a contested concept known for its ambiguity and inconsistency of measurements. Other criticisms include the lack of equity perspectives and the underrepresentation of people wit...
Electric Cooperative In an Off-grid Island In the Philippines and the Outlook On Renewable Energy as a Source of Power :...
In a world with a growing population, expanding national economies, widespread electrified lifestyles, and global warming, the energy crisis is becoming an increasingly urgent issue. The electricity demand is increasing while the current grids and its expansion face requirements regarding sustainability, reliability and affordability. Furthermore, ...
