Tax Policies as Health Care Policies

President Obama’s Health Care Reform Policies

In comparison, most major developed nations spend only 8% to 10% of their GDP on health care—half the percentage of GDP spent in the U.S.3 Although it has been proposed that the U.S. population is unhealthy or that Americans use more medical services, studies have actually concluded that the price of care, not the amount of care delivered, is the primary difference between the U.S. and othercou...

Retirement Security and Tax Policies: A Reply

Immunization of Health-Care Providers: Necessity and Public Health Policies

Health-care providers (HCPs) are at increased risk for exposure to vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in the workplace. The rationale for immunization of HCPs relies on the need to protect them and, indirectly, their patients from health-care-associated VPDs. Published evidence indicates significant immunity gaps for VPDs of HCPs globally. Deficits in knowledge and false perceptions about VPDs...

Essentials of health economics: part III--developing health care policies.

The previous part of the series (part II)' was concerned with the questions of choice in the context of financing systems. This and the next two parts are again concerned with choice, the central issue of economics. Here (part III) we discuss some of the ways in which economics has been and can be used within the National Health Service to assist in developing health care policy. How to plan th...

[Health policies in oral health].

Las políticas sanitarias en materia de salud dental se han desarrollado en las edad escolar y se pueden analizar en tres periodos sucesivos. El primero comenzó con la realización de estudios epidemiológicos al final de los años sesenta de la pasada centuria; en el segundo –años 80– tuvo lugar la instauración de un programa de atención odontológica preventiva infantil; y en el último periodo ha ...