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Data Analytics Improves Credit Risk Reduction Via Diversification

Smart Data Collective

The World Bank Blog has an entire post dedicated to this topic. The borrower’s financial health, economic conditions, interest rate variations, and even geopolitical developments are among these influences. Big data technology is making these processes easier than ever.

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Weight Loss Drugs arent “the answer”

Sheffield DPH

Do Health Economics 101 and read the TA, section 4 esp the discrepancy between manufacturers model assumptions vs committee central base case 3. Marion’s blog was as good as any 7. ICER in the order of £20k / QALY. Side effect profile not insignificant – treatment consequences. NICE said tightly px, Novo culdnt give a stuff.

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Meet Emily Goldmann, Director of SPH’s Online MPH Program

BU School of Public Health Blog

I did my master’s and my doctorate in epidemiology, but my career goal at the time was to work at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which I did end up doing for about four years. Following that, I pivoted to consulting in health economics outcomes research.

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

She has an internationally recognised track record in transplant epidemiology, cancer and transplantation, social ethics in organ allocation, decision analytical modelling, health economics, and quality-of-life studies in transplant recipients.

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

“Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. See my blog dog that doesn’t bark…. Some just get on with it.

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My 22 Oldest Jokes and Why They Still Matter in 2022

The Health Care Blog

As to why Americans can’t do Canadian-style healthcare: “I lived in Canada, I trained in health economics and health policy in Canada, my wife is Canadian, and most of my extended family live in Canada.