Running a hospital April 21, 2010 5:21 AM by Paul Levy Each year, US News and World Report publishes its list of the top 50 hospitals in various specialties (example here). Now, an article has been published suggesting that one aspect of the methodology used by the magazine is flawed. “The Role of Reputation in… [Read more…]
April 29, 2007
The health of a nation is directly proportional to the type of health care access it offers. The healthcare access in turn is mainly dependent upon the amount and manner of resource allocation.
March 11, 2007
Recently Pakistan’s tribal areas made the headlines again. This time the issue is health care access, or refusal thereof to be more specific. According to a report parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow workers to administer polio vaccines. This is blamed mainly on the fatwas (religious edicts) issued by the local… [Read more…]
February 20, 2007
In April of last year, Gilbert H. Burnham and Leslie F. Roberts, A&S ’92 (PhD), began finalizing plans for some new epidemiology. There was nothing notable in that; Burnham and Roberts, at the time both researchers at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, were epidemiologists. What was notable was the subject. They would not… [Read more…]
December 25, 2006
According to the Millennium Project "More than one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day. In total, 2.7 billion struggle to survive on less than two dollars per day".
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