Abstract Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the significance of mathematical modelling in decision-making and the limited capacity in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Thus, we studied how modelling supported policy decision-making processes in LMICs during the pand

This study is a part of the research in “Research for development of health benefit package under universal coverage scheme”. This study aims to estimate social costs of health impact of people living inside and around industrial areas who risked acute myeloid leukemia (AML), in cases whereby AML was caused by benzene exposure. The result point

CATHERINE PITTa,* ANNA VASSALLa, YOT TEERAWATTANANONb, ULLA K. GRIFFITHSa, LORNA GUINNESSa, AMIAN WALKERc, NICOLA FOSTERd and KARA HANSONa a Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK b Health Intervention and Technology Assess

WASHINGTON — It would seem a business executive’s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years.Congress has failed to stop it, and for more than a decade generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it.Until th

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All two to 17-year-olds in the UK are to be offered annual flu vaccinations.If 30% take up the offer, there will be 11,000 fewer hospitalisations and 2,000 fewer deaths each year, the chief medical officer for England says.The children will be immunised using a nasal spray rather than an injection,

We grabbed five minutes with Dr. Yot Teerawattananon, the founder of the NCD Prevention: Best Buys, Wasted Buys, Contestable Buys book, to find out just what inspired this project.So can you tell us more about the background of this book project?YT: It was initiated during the PMAC’s IOC [Internatio

We sat down with the David Kim (DK), Rachel Bacon (RB) and Peter Neumann (PN)[1] who are the authors of Chapter 6 titled Assessing the Transferability of Economic Evaluations: A Decision Framework, to get a sneak peak into Chapter 6. Q : Thank you for joining us today, can you first tell us why we n

We had a quick catch up with Tazeem Bhatia[1] from Global Public health and Ryota Nakamura[2] from Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, co-authors of Chapter 4 titled Best Buys to get a better understanding of what this chapter entails. Let’s learn more below!Q : Can you please tell us in one