In Mortal Peril, Professor Epstein is critical of the current, regulated system for organ donation and suggests that a market for organ tissue would better meet the needs of patients. In this response to Professor Epstein, Professor Laura Dooley and Dr. Robert Gaston pair their skills to attack Professor Epstein's analysis. As they have done on several other occasions, Professors Dooley and Gas...

BACKGROUND A large number of men who have sex with men (MSM) and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) are underserved despite increased service availability from government facilities while many community based organizations (CBOs) are not involved. We aimed to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the task shifting from government facilities to CBOs in China. METHODS HIV preventive inter...

BACKGROUND Improving perinatal health is the key to achieving the Millennium Development Goal for child survival. Recently, several reviews suggest that scaling up available effective perinatal interventions in an integrated approach can substantially reduce the stillbirth and neonatal death rates worldwide. We evaluated the effect of packaged interventions given in pregnancy, delivery and post...

This paper identifies specific sources of the failure of private markets to allocate TB control resources efficiently. These market failures, as well as the concentration of the disease amongst the poor, suggest a number of roles for public intervention. Government intervention should aim to either increase, add to, or substitute for private supply, depending on the type of market failure and t...

One longitudinal intervention study was conducted at a government agency to examine the effectiveness of a macroergonomic approach for implementing work organization interventions aimed at reducing musculoskeletal injuries. The intervention used a variety of methods, including worker participation, job enrichment, and teamwork to achieve a successful implementation. In this paper, results are p...

Originally, the market failure concept was used only as a normative concept to define appropriate situations for government intervention in markets. As it matured, the market failure concept took on an additional characteristic— that of a diagnostic tool by which policymakers learned how to objectively determine the exact scope and type of intervention. Joseph Farrell suggests: “The welfare the...

Why do regional governments establish venture capital funds? Government intervention in markets is traditionally legitimised by market failure rationales. In this paper, we analyse the supply of public and private Dutch regions, which reveals a multiplicity rationales for government economy. We ground policy diffusion literature distinguish four intervention: economic competition, coercion, imi...

The government affects the sewage discharge behavior of enterprises through intervention behavior, which reflects viewpoint institutional theory. However, at same time, whether regional marketization can also motivate enterprises’ treatment poses a challenge to this view. Therefore, theoretical models are established, objective data collected, and empirical studies conducted explore relationshi...

BACKGROUND The way in which a government chooses to finance a health intervention can affect the uptake of health interventions and consequently the extent of health gains. In addition to health gains, some policies such as public finance can insure against catastrophic health expenditures. We aimed to evaluate the health and financial risk protection benefits of selected interventions that cou...