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Who’s really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
In a complex environment with massive numbers of internet-connected devices, the key barrier to better cybersecurity isn’t funding: It’s ensuring staff at all levels take action against the threat.
Private health insurance premiums are set to rise again. These 14 charts (well, technically 10 charts and four tables) look at some of the reasons why health insurance premiums keep going up and up.
One in four patients who stays overnight in hospital endures a complication.
Creative appointment scheduling minimizes in-office waiting for physicians and patients.
Thanks to Hurricane Maria, some US hospitals are experiencing a saline shortage. In times of emergency, medical supply chains break down too easily.
We asked four of our regular economics writers to examine a key theme they expect to flare up in 2018 and why.
The rapid growth of genetic testing and data-gathering could revolutionize health and medicine if governments work to protect people against privacy and societal risks.
If Americans become less healthy and have less access to health care, then everyone loses.
Once young women could access health insurance through their parents, they seemed to make very different decisions about contraception, abortion and marriage.
We have lots of data about hospital safety, but it’s not used to make us safer or more comfortable when we’re admitted.
It’s hard but feasible to make a difference, as long as you work with the locals and don’t become a ‘disaster tourist.’
A staggering 70 per cent of female inmates are back in prison within two years of their release. Basic health and dental care could help change this, according to new research.
The population is aging in Canada and around the world. It’s time to focus our attentions on optimal aging instead of grimly tallying the burdens of growing old.
In most markets, diversity and choice foster robust competition. In health insurance they could lead to fragmentation and market failure.
Hurricane Maria has left 3.4 million Puerto Ricans facing shortages of food, health care and transit, an American humanitarian crisis fueled by the US territory’s May 2017 bankruptcy.
Bold leadership is needed to adapt Canada’s expensive and mediocre health-care system for an aging population struggling with chronic disease.
The French health care system is rated as one of the best in the world, but it’s a shield that’s under increasing stress.
The first generation of medical artificial intelligence systems are already rolling out to clinics. What are the plus- and down-sides?
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Professor of Gerontology, UMass Boston
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Thomas Barnay is a Friend of The Conversation.
Full Professor in Economics, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
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Professor (adjunct) and Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Indigenous Science Research Director, Indigenous Science and Engagement, CSIRO
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Professor of Public Administration, University of Antwerp
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Rutgers University - Newark
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George Dock Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
