Publications
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Investing in Obesity Treatment to Deliver Significant Healthcare Savings: Estimating the Healthcare Costs of Obesity and the Benefits of Treatment
Obesity rates in Europe have been growing at an accelerated speed in the past two decades. In the European Union, between 36.9% and 56.7% of all...
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PRICE TAGGING THE PRICELESS: International reference pricing for medicines in theory and practice
International reference pricing (IRP) has become a popular policy instrument in Europe as government seeks to curb healthcare costs and notably...
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What is Driving the Rise in Health Care Expenditures? An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Cost Disease
The last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a...
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The Health of Nations: Conceptualizing Approaches to Trade in Health Care
The forces of the Wealth of nations are not at work for the Health of nations. Economic and trade integration have progressed over the last fifty...