Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy

Extending the Cure case interview featured in policymaker toolkit for reducing waste and inefficiency in healthcare

17 Jan 2013

Last week Extending the Cure (ETC) staff attended Striving for High Value Health Care: Lessons Learned Across the Country – a roundtable event organized by NEHI, a Boston-based health policy institute dedicated to lowering the cost and improving the quality of US healthcare.

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Posted by admin

Tags: antibiotic use, policy

Weekly Digest: Evaluating India’s health insurance scheme, EU tackles resistance, and US health lags

11 Jan 2013

A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.

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Posted by Alison Buki

Tags: antibiotic use, antibiotics, disease, drug development, drug resistance, food safety, HAIs, malaria vaccine, new antibiotics, new drugs, policy, resistance, Vaccination

The Health of India’s Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor: White Elephant or White Noise?

10 Jan 2013

There is a growing ideological divide among Indian health researchers and policymakers with respect to the future direction of the country’s health policy. Those in favor of supply-side policies (i.e.

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Posted by Arindam Nandi

Tags: community, cost, costs, developing, disease, health, health economics, India, policy, trends