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Cuba stresses its programme to send doctors abroad is based in solidarity. But there are diplomatic and economic reasons too.
A sector-by-sector look at who is benefiting, who is in trouble and who could go either way.
It’s not the price of health care that should concern us. It’s the cost. There’s a distinction, and it matters. Here’s why.
A sense of wellbeing can have an important affect on parents’ decisions when it comes to health care.
The Chinese Communist Party has long used healthcare as part of its propaganda operation.
Health services are routinely falling short when it comes to providing care to lesbian, bisexual, trans and other sexual minority women.
More inmates are growing old and dying in prison, and the system is not designed to cope.
Researchers are looking for ways to determine who’s most at risk for dementia and also ways to detect it early. A scientist who has studied low blood pressure makes a case for a link between the two.
Are more technologically advanced prosthetics and orthotics actually better for improving health? Or do we just think they are better? And most importantly, how do we figure it out?
It’s all very well having rights. But what do these rights really mean when you’re with your GP, in hospital or in a nursing home?
Automated decision making has been around in healthcare since the 1970s, and now radiology is the new frontline where AI is being deployed.
People are increasingly considering themselves experts on drugs.
Yes, 86% of GP visits were bulk-billed in 2017-18, up from 82% when Labor was in power. But they also rose under Labor, while the percentage for “patients” seems to be lower than the percentage for “visits”.
From Ford to Facebook, companies have long used benefits to mold employee behavior – even incentivizing the ‘right’ kind of lifestyle.
A research lab at the University of Saskatchewan is pursuing the applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to healthcare diagnoses.
Expensive hospitals are what Australians want, but prevention and local solutions are what Australians need.
How working with limited resources in remote areas helped improve the skills of one healthcare professional.
Many health professionals leave Africa because they don’t know how to handle the non-clinical systemic problems.
As Trump prepares to deliver his delayed State of the Union address, here’s what four economists had to say about the state of the union.
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Research Scientist of Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Professor of Finance and Economics, UNSW
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Senior Researcher, Associate Professor: Economic Management Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor, UNSW
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Professor of Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Health Policy, University of York
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Executive Dean, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Head of Research, PUSKAPA
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Senior Lecturer in Health Care Law and Ethics, Barrister, Solicitor, Swansea University