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Study looks at effects of menthol cigarette ban on smoking habits

News Medical Health Sciences

New research published in Health Economics indicates that a national prohibition of menthol cigarettes in the United States could increase the number of people who attempt to quit smoking but also support an illegal menthol cigarette market.

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Psychedelics and the Future of Mental Health: Science, Faith, Hype and Healthcare Innovation with Fayzan Rob

Exploring Health

The conversation dives deep into groundbreaking research on how psychedelics can transform not only the mental health care of individuals but entire models of care.

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Data Analytics Improves Credit Risk Reduction Via Diversification

Smart Data Collective

The borrower’s financial health, economic conditions, interest rate variations, and even geopolitical developments are among these influences. The World Bank Blog has an entire post dedicated to this topic. To comprehend credit risk, various elements that impact a borrower’s capacity to repay must be considered.

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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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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. ICER in the order of £20k / QALY. To those who say “but the saving to the NHS from using these drugs vastly outweighs the cost of the drug ” – er … no.

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Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina

NC Health News

But in all of this, theres a question of whether insurers pass along savings they achieve from prior authorization in the form of things like lower premiums, said Dustin Tracy, assistant professor of health economics at Augusta University School of Public Health. Its unclear whether that actually happens.