Who Benefits From Health System Change?

Who benefits from health system change?

The organization of medical care is changing more rapidly now than at any point in the last century. For decades, health care was a cottage industry: physicians practiced independently or in small groups and had arms-length relationships with hospitals, imaging and laboratory facilities, and other health care entities. Those organizations alternately competed and cooperated as part of an inform...

Who Benefits from Rural Change? A Study on the Nature of Social Status Uplifts in Rural Iran

Changing people social status, particularly upwardly, is often considered an indication of a government success in reaching a fair society, particularly in traditionally rigid structures. This is mainly possible through implementing development plan(s) which is theoretically assumed to result in wiping out traditional rigid structures. In the post-revolutionary Iran, the government took upon it...

Who Benefits from Religion?

Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers clear benefits to many, in this paper we explore whether it may also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and sub...

Who Benefits from Agglomeration?

Who Benefits from Biotechnology?

All this means that I view the world both from an economic perspective and from the perspective of working with agriculture and farmers. I am an educator who tries to present information in as factual a way as possible and give people the tools and means to form their own opinions. I start from the basic supposition that economics is the study of allocating scarce resources and not simply the s...