Public health priorities - The cost-effectiveness of HIV control: Getting the priorities right

Getting the priorities right for stroke care.

Setting health priorities: the development of cost-effectiveness league tables.

Alan Williams’s web site describes him as a ‘‘pseudoretired professor of economics still active in promoting more explicit priority-setting based on cost-effectiveness approaches to both health maximisation and the reduction of health inequalities’’. He is widely acknowledged as the most influential of British health economists and indeed the father of the sub-discipline in the United Kingdom, ...

Global health priorities – priorities of the wealthy?

Health has gained importance on the global agenda. It has become recognized in forums where it was once not addressed. In this article three issues are considered: global health policy actors, global health priorities and the means of addressing the identified health priorities. I argue that the arenas for global health policy-making have shifted from the public spheres towards arenas that incl...

Public Health Research Priorities For The Future

The last century of innovative public health discoveries has led most of the world’s population to lead longer, healthier lives. Yet, the future holds some of the greatest public health challenges in mankind’s history. Global disparities in health; medication safety; climate change; epidemics of obesity and diabetes; an aging world demographic; and emerging infections all represent problems req...

Genomic priorities and public health.

Given the continuing difficulty of identifying genes for complex disorders in a robust, replicable manner, and the extensive resources devoted to this effort, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze the relative benefits of genomics research for public health applications and for the understanding of disease pathogenesis. To establish priorities for genetics research, we review and eva...