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Legislating for universal access to medicines : a rights-based cross-national comparison of UHC laws in 16 countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that all people have access to health services including essential medicines without risking financial hardship. Yet, in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) inadequate UHC fails to ensure universal
Alexandrov, Nikita V   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Pricing Dynamics in the US Hemp Market: A Vertical Price Transmission Analysis of the Hemp Value Chain

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ademetionine treatment cost analysis of patients with intrahepatic cholestasis and non-alcoholic fatty disease

open access: yesКачественная клиническая практика, 2022
Relevance. Ademetionine is a hepatoprotective drug, is included in the  draft Russian clinical guidelines for the  diagnosis and treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and in the  clinical guidelines for treating intrahepatic cholestasis (
M. V. Zhuravleva   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Controlling Costs and Increasing Access to Prescription Drugs: State and Federal Solutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Spending on health care in the United States continues to increase rapidly, consuming a greater share of the total economy each year. Over the past decade, prescription drug spending has been the fastest growing component of health care expenditures both
Michael Sullivan, Rebecca Kavoussi
core  

Work Disability, Early Retirement, and Loss of a Loved One in the World Trade Center Health Registry Cohort

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Existing research on the economic outcomes of 9/11 remains limited and has primarily focused on early retirement. Little is known about the prevalence of work disability and loss of a loved one and whether they are associated with survey attrition.
Jennifer Brite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Exempting the Pharmaceutical Industry from Patent Reviews [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of an amendment to Senate Bill 1137, offered by Senator Thomas Tillis, which would exempt patents related to pharmaceuticals and biological products from the Inter Partes Review (IPR) process.
Dean Baker
core  

Severe Occupational Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: A Case Series of Four Patients Requiring Lung Transplantation

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is an immune‐mediated interstitial lung disease triggered by repeated inhalation of organic or chemical antigens. Occupational exposures account for approximately 19% of all cases. Early diagnosis, identification of the responsible antigen(s), and immediate avoidance of exposure are crucial to prevent ...
Ludwig Frei‐Stuber   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of a Permanent Prohibition on Implementing the Major Health Care Legislation Enacted in March 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
[Excerpt] This letter discusses many of the potential effects of a permanent ban on the use of appropriated funds to implement the health care laws and, where possible, provides information on whether those effects would increase or decrease direct ...
Elmendorf, Douglas W
core   +1 more source

Patient Perspectives on Psychiatric Polygenic Risk Scores in Reproductive Decision‐Making and Polygenic Embryo Screening

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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