#health economics

[cicaklah]

I went to a professional webinar (by which I mean I cleaned my kitchen while listening to it on my phone) and wow did I not miss academic bullshit.

Being in industry is so fucking humbling every day to the leftover academic parts of my brain, because the things people SAY about industry are not the problems WITH industry or IN industry but people with no industry experience can just stand up and say shit??? I ended up turning it off after one of the speakers just said something that was almost identical to something I once argued with a professor about like, five years ago, and the interviewer just was like 'wow what a good idea'! It wasn't! It was facile and simple and also ABSOLUTELY opening up an actually a-political process to political WHIMS and also fundamentally misunderstands the entire concept and use-case for the QALY omg flames on the side of my face.

The irony is that you'd think arguing with professors would be the thing that would make you a GOOD academic. Like I once argued with a nobel prize winner at an LSE event because he was Wrong and he didn't argue with me, just made a dismissive comment.

I know I need to go to more therapy for my post-academic-arguing-disorder but every time I get on a call with a client and they say 'we want to do this' and I get to say no, you can't, because its bad, lets do THIS instead is basically therapy enough.

that and the 3x salary. that also helps.

anyway fuck academia, fuck phds, burn the academy down.

#health economics #phd hell #anyway happy birthday NICE you are great don't listen to these idiots #25 years young

[pocketglobalhealth]

On Lead (Pb) Exposure in LMICs

#Lead #lead poisoning #toxicology #global health #Medicine #health #international health #health economics #Pb #Lead (pb)

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Anne Mills

Health economist Anne Mills was born in 1951. Mills is Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is recognized as a leading authority on the organization and financing of health systems in low and middle income countries. Mills has served as President of the International Health Economics Association, and been made a Dame Commander for her service to international health. In 2013, she was elected to the Royal Society.

#economics #health economics #economists #global health #england #uk #united kingdom #Youtube

[biomedivine]

09/10/22

And, yes, I should really start looking for #conferences out there! So I plead to fellow PhD students with more experience than me, if you know where I can be aware of #healtheconomics conferences, websites, profiles I should follow and so, tell me!! Will be infinitely grateful ^^.

#biomedicalengineering #bioengineering #biomedicine #science #career #university #health #knowledge #atusligo #ireland #health economics #healthsciences #conferences

[omg-erika]

For wise Psycho-Politics

by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext – Oct. 2022 Updated: 5.1.2024 What the mainstream media is hiding Public mental health has never been worse than it is today.Why shouldn’t talented lay helpers be allowed to help alleviate the emergency? In contrast, the constitutional state has erected irrational barriers that place class interests above the common good. It is time for more pragmatism…

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#cost trap #Harald Wiesendanger #health economics #lobbyism #mental health pandemic #pragmatism #professional interests #psycho-politics #Public health

[asploroopenaccesspublications]

How to Implement Universal Healthcare Coverage in the United States: Two Novel Pathways | Abstract

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#2-tier Health Insurance #Expansion #Health Economics #Health Policy #Medicare #Universal Health Coverage

[thistlecrimes]

Things I've learned from getting covid for the first time in 2023

I wear an N95 in public spaces and I've managed to dodge it for a long time, but I finally got covid for the first time (to my knowledge) in mid-late November 2023. It was a weird experience especially because I feel like it used to be something everyone was talking about and sharing info on, so getting it for the first time now (when people generally seem averse to talking about covid) I found I needed to seek out a lot of info because I wasn't sure what to do. I put so much effort into prevention, I knew less about what to do when you have it. I'm experiencing a rebound right now so I'm currently isolating. So, I'm making a post in the hopes that if you get covid (it's pretty goddamn hard to avoid right now) this info will be helpful for you. It's a couple things I already knew and several things I learned. One part of it is based on my experience in Minnesota but some other states may have similar programs.

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The World Health Organization states you should isolate for 10 days from first having symptoms plus 3 days after the end of symptoms.

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At the time of my writing this post, in Minnesota, we have a test to treat program where you can call, report the result of your rapid test (no photo necessary) and be prescribed paxlovid over the phone to pick up from your pharmacy or have delivered to you. It is free and you do not need to have insurance. I found it by googling "Minnesota Test to Treat Covid"

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Paxlovid decreases the risk of hospitalization and death, but it's also been shown to decrease the risk of Long Covid. Long Covid can occur even from mild or asymptomatic infections.

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Covid rebound commonly occurs 2-8 days after apparent recovery. While many people associate Paxlovid with covid rebound, researchers say there is no strong evidence that Paxlovid causes covid rebound, and rebounds occur in infections that were not treated with Paxlovid as well. I knew rebounds could happen but did not know it could take 8 days. I had mine on day 7 and was completely surprised by it.

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If you start experiencing new symptoms or test positive again, the CDC states that you should start your isolation period again at day zero. Covid rebound is still contagious. Personally I'd suggest wearing a high quality respirator around folks for an additional 8-9 days after you start to test negative in case of a rebound.

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Positive results on a rapid test can be very faint, but even a very faint line is positive result. Make sure to look at your rapid test result under strong lighting. Also, false negatives are not uncommon. If you have symptoms but test negative taking multiple tests and trying different brands if you have them are not bad ideas. My ihealth tests picked up my covid, my binax now tests did not.

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EDIT: I'd highly suggest spending time with friends online if you can, I previously had a link to the NAMI warmline directory in this post but I've since been informed that NAMI is very much funded by pharmaceutical companies and lobbies for policies that take autonomy away from disabled folks, so I've taken that off of here! Sorry, I had no idea, the People's CDC listed them as a resource so I just assumed they were legit! Feel free to reply/reblog this with other warmlines/support resources if you know of them! And please reblog this version!

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I know that there is so much we can't control as individuals right now, and that's frightening. All we can do is try our best to reduce harm and to care for each other. I hope this info will be able to help folks.

#covid #covid 19 #harm reduction #apparently only 16% of Americans even got their booster #it's wild out there #which makes sense because our public health messaging has been super unhelpful and intentionally shifted the burden #of infection control onto individuals to avoid us holding them accountable because it's politically and economically inconvenient to them

[econrenuka]

How to find good books in economics

I was watching this video by Market Power on youtube to see where I could find more interesting economics books. I'm currently reading through the old canon, but honestly I do want to read some books there are a bit more specific to my tastes as a PhD student interested in health economics.

To my surprise, he suggested that people really interested in academic nonfiction subscribe to university press newsletters. What a fantastic suggestion!

I immediately went to the Harvard and Yale University Press websites just to see what was there and I found a fascinating list of books. I decided to make a quick list of the books that might be most interesting to health economists (and as a future reference for myself!)

Obviously, these are just some of the initial ones I found interesting from the two press websites i visited, so I highly recommend anyone reading this to go take a look for yourself and find something specific to your interests! I'll definitely continue keeping tabs!

Harvard University Press

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant

The Cigarette: A Political History by Sarah Milov

The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David T. Courtwright

Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat by Ai Hisano

Ancestral Genomics: African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine by Constance B. Hilliard

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well by Allen, Joseph G. and Macomber, John D.

Yale University Press

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It by Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Ray Fisman

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease by Arleen Marcia Tuchman

Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine by Peter A. Swenson

American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt

Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis by Sydney A. Halpern

#economics #book list #university press #health econ #health economics

[deviprasad12]

A 10-minute daily workout can lower the risk of heart disease

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[pandemichub]

Urgent health news

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Note in an effort not to lose threads I will try to back them up via screenshots. If any links to Twitter break I will upload pictures of the posts/threads.

#Eric Feigl-Ding #Eric Feigl Ding #Epidemology #Health economics #Health economist #Covid-19 #Covid 19 #Covid #Sars Cov 2 #Recombinant #XBB #BQ.1 #Public Health #News #Winter #December 2022 #December #Holidays #Stay safe

[dominik-wettstein]

The impact of value-based pricing policies for new medicines on negotiation behaviour and societal outcomes: implications from three economic experiments

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6519458

This dissertation shows how testing health policy measures in controlled laboratory experiments could contribute to reform discussions on pharmaceutical price regulation. As is already being done in other policy areas. According to the results presented, value-based pricing policies could improve patient access to medicines and increase the value for money of price negotiations. Provided that negotiations are based on a common valuation framework oriented towards value for money.

#Health Policy #behavioral health #health economics #laboratory experiments #Pharmaceuticals policy #pharmaceutical industry #medicines #patient access #drug prices

[lataprojects]

Minority Health Scholarship Fund

Help reshape the field of health equity, access and inclusion. We are starting at the ground level, finding the intersectionality of many disciplines and their pivotal role in health. We hope to offer scholarship in exchange for fellowship and research.

We hope to run a one year pilot program. We are partnering with the tropEd program to offer ten Minority students either full or partial scholarship to attend one of these graduate programs in international health.

We are starting the groundwork for a pilot program to help more minorities to complete their graduate degrees in fields related to health. The program will only fund programs related to health in the social sciences and mental health.

More information coming soon!

#minorityeducation #scholarshipfunds #mental heath support #medical anthropology #healthsociology #health economics #biostatistics #health psychology #graduate school #health research #funding #donations #education equality #MindBodySociety

[mindblowingscience]

In an ideal workplace, organizations should strive to protect employees from abusive supervisors, but for employees who experience this type of intense workplace stress, new research from the University at Buffalo School of Management offers insight and coping strategies. Available online ahead of publication in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the study examines whether employees can recover from supervisory abuse during leisure time, and if individual personality traits impact the restoration process. "Abusive supervision is detrimental to employees' well-being. Victims experience increased emotional exhaustion, job stress, negative emotions, and physical symptoms like pain, weakness, fatigue and shortness of breath," says study co-author Min-Hsuan Tu, Ph.D., assistant professor of organization and human resources in the UB School of Management. "Our study clarifies why and under what conditions abused employees engage in certain activities to recover after work." Gathering data from 203 full-time employees in Taiwan, the researchers analyzed more than 1,500 daily responses over 10 consecutive working days to measure employee perception of nonphysical aggression from a boss or manager, such as humiliating or threatening subordinates or taking credit for their work.

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#Science #Health #Sociology #Economics #Stress

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#ecology #economics #public health #just sayin' #other stuff

[biomedivine]

FIRST PRESENTATON!!

09/10/2022

So, 3 months in Sligo, 1 month properly into the Ph.D. Struggled a bit finding routine, but I think now i've got it. Already did a presentation, maybe will do it again for a future seminary.

And I can say I am extremely happy with the feedback I got, my supervisors loved it.

It was on #EQ5D5L health assessment tool.

#PhD #PhDlife #PhDinIreland #ATUSligo #biomedicalengineering #health economics #bioengineering #biomedicine #science #university #career #health #knowledge #atusligo #ireland

[bekahcathcart]

Should DCRs be legalised in Scotland?

Hi everyone, I am currently completing my master's in Public Policy and was hoping to ask anyone who is Scottish or a resident (lived here for 3+ years) to fill out my 3-question survey on the introduction of Drug Consumption Rooms in Scotland. Currently struggling for numbers so would so appreciate it! No prior knowledge is needed and shouldn't take more than 5 mins. Please feel free to share with friends/family, the more the merrier - Thank you so much!

#scotland #scottish #edinburgh #glasgow #health policy #survey #research #education #lse #london school of economics