Global Health
Our work in Global Health
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Global Aging and Inequality: USC Schaeffer Center Partners with the OECD and the University of Rome Tor Vergata
Policymakers and researchers will discuss global aging and inequality at a conference in Paris at the OECD.
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Is the National Health Protection Scheme Good Public Policy?
India recently announced an ambitious plan called the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) to provide government-sponsored insurance to roughly 500 million people or nearly 40% of India’s population.
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Social Health Insurance for the Poor: Lessons from a Health Insurance Programme in Karnataka, India
In 2010, India rolled out a social health insurance scheme focused on increasing access to tertiary care for households below the poverty line. Sood and his collegues summarize the key findings from this experiment and what it means for public policy.
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The Global Burden of Medical Innovation
Calculations using publicly available aggregate data suggest that the United States market accounts for 64 to 78 percent of worldwide pharmaceutical profits.
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LiveMint: How Inequality Works
Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today, says Angus Deaton
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Government Health Insurance and Spatial Peer Effects: New Evidence from India
Neeraj Sood and his colleagues examines the diffusion of healthcare in India.
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