A hospital hostel saved from closure

Subnormality Hostel

Successful Hostel Scheme

Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

Hospital closure and economic efficiency.

We present a new framework for assessing the effects of hospital closures on social welfare and the local economy. While patient welfare necessarily declines when patients lose access to a hospital, closures also tend to reduce costs. We study five hospital closures in two states and find that urban hospital bailouts reduce aggregate social welfare: on balance, the cost savings from closures mo...

Can Hitchcock be Saved from Hitchcock Studies?

A s Robert Kapsis ha.s noted in Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation, Alfred Hitchcock alway.s courted the press. From the early yeans in England working for Michael Balcon at Ciainsborough to his final years in Hollywood working for Lew Wasserman at Universal, Hitchcock attempted to produce and direct critical response to himself and to his work. One of Hitchcock's favorite screenwriters, Cha...