March 2012
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“Monitor will tackle anti-competitive behaviour where this is not in the...”
– The Health and Social Care Bill is now law, but its implementation will be fraught with challenges | British Politics and Policy at LSE
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“The most recent tobacco control policies, while allowing individuals to smoke,...”
– The revised EU’s Tobacco Products Directive seeks to ‘nudge’ citizens towards making better decisions about smoking whilst preserving individual choice. | EUROPP
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NHS waiting list rise prompts government U-turn |... →
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Leaked: NHS Transition Programme Risks →
Just got it through Twitter via Ben Goldacre (PDF). Have a look.
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“Last week I participated in a roundtable that on these issues, along with other...”
– The Supreme Court, Health Care Reform, and Electoral Politics — The Monkey Cage
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“The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) just reached its second birthday, and this...”
– The exaggerated life of ‘death panels’ - Behind the Numbers - The Washington Post
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“The ZIP file below contains the programme and documents (lectures and exercises)...”
– Eurothine | Teaching materials | Teaching materials
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“In anticipation of next week’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the...”
– Watch this! – via The Question Is Not Moot: The Constitution and the Affordable Care Act | Open Society Foundations Blog - OSF
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Oxford University Press: Epidemiology and the... →
Nancy Krieger uses Gapminder maps that you will also spot in the slides for this course.
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“In 2006, the government gave patients a choice over where they received hospital...”
– The geeks must quash the believers in gut instinct - FT.com
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“This study argues that President Obama’s strong association with an issue like...”
– Racial Attitudes and Health Care Reform — The Monkey Cage
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Both economic theory and evidence from the UK... →
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“The new health care law will prohibit such “gender rating,” starting in 2014....”
– Women Still Pay More for Health Insurance, Data Shows - NYTimes.com
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Un anticancéreux inverse rapidement Alzheimer chez... →
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“Ministers argue they cannot release the register because they fear it will...”
– NHS reforms: Labour granted emergency Commons debate | Society | The Guardian
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Watch(via Andrew Lansley chased through hospital corridor – video | Politics | guardian.co.uk)
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“A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows greater opposition than support for...”
– Health Care Polls
“The bill will lead to commercialisation and incursion of private sector...”
– Lord Greaves (Lib-Dem), quoted at NHS reforms live: crunch day in the House of Lords | Society | guardian.co.uk. The current NHS bill is just as divisive as the government currently is divided: exceptionally, by British standards. Coalition government is failing with the public on handling welfare...
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“The reform law is most popular among Black and Hispanic respondents, 18-29...”
– Health Care Polls
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“The White House has begun an aggressive campaign to use approaching Supreme...”
– White House Works to Shape Debate Over Health Law - NYTimes.com
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“… the clinic closed in October, along with more than a dozen others in the...”
– Texas Women’s Clinics Retreat as Finances Are Cut - NYTimes.com (Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Punishing the Poor’, under a different guise)
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“The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the board would drive...”
– Weren’t House Republicans Worried About Medicare Costs? - NYTimes.com
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“Not surprisingly, studies have found that countries where out-of-pocket payments...”
– Who pays if you’re sick? | OECD Factblog (see also: inverse care law)
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“The majority of public health interventions assessed are highly cost-effective....”
– The cost-effectiveness of public health interventions
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“When I used to work at a cancer charity, I would often hear people asking why...”
– A world within a tumour – new study shows just how complex cancer can be | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
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“Webber suggests that airlines set a standard passenger weight, say, 75 kilos. If...”
– Weigh More, Pay More - Peter Singer - Project Syndicate
The assault on universalism: how to destroy the... →
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“HIV infection rates among black women in some parts of the United States are...”
– HIV rates in black women much higher than thought - latimes.com
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“Writing in the medical journal The Lancet Oncology, Professor Bernard Stewart,...”
– Unproven cancer risks diverting focus from real cause: lifestyle
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“Based within the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, the Global Health...”
– GHEG
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Sarah Boseley Sarah Boseley's global health blog... →
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“Pisani has written a first-person narrative that brings the reader along on her...”
– Inconvenient Truths | The Nation
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“Elizabeth Pisani uses unconventional field research to understand how real-world...”
– Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV — let’s get rational | Video on TED.com
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“The breadth of the Chief Medical Officer’s job is huge, with some set...”
– My working day: Sir Liam Donaldson
“Less engineering. More social science.”
– Humanizing health systems (World Bank) 