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Les Echos
Saving the pension system: the Chilean example
Date: 09 June 2008
French newspaper Les Echos reviews Stockholm Network`s new publication Le Taureau par les Cornes: Comment résoudre la crise des retraites (`The Bull by the Horns: how to resolve the retirement crisis`). This article first appeared in Les Echos on 9th June 2008.  Arzt & Wirtschaft
Kosten-Nutzen-Bewertung darf nicht nur pauschalieren!
Date: 28 February 2008
Dr Meir Pugatch, Director of Research for the Stockholm Network, had an article published in the German magazine "Arzt & Wirtschaft". In the article Dr Pugatch discusses the use of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in the German health system. He recommended that the role of the HTA body “IQWiG” should be confined to setting reimbursement limits; it should not tell patients which medication to take.
This article first appeared in Arzt & Wirtschaft in February 2008. Public Finance
Fat is a fiscal issue
Date: 26 October 2007
Chief Executive Helen Disney discusses obesity in Britain and the effect it could have upon public funds, highlighting an exmaple to be learnt from Finland.
This article first appeared in Public Finance Magazine on 26th October 2007. 18 Doughty Street
Health Technology Assessment (Interview with Dr. Tim Evans)
Date: 29 August 2007
Dr Tim Evans joins Donal Blaney on 18 Doughty Street to discuss the recent Stockholm Network publication: Healthy Market? Health Technology Assessment in Context.
Health Care News
Evidence-Based Medicine Neglects Individual Needs
Date: 26 July 2007
The movement called rational use of medicine (RUM) is about controlling both drug formularies and information.
RUM encompasses various expressions used to define and promote three interrelated notions which are not entirely synonymous but which have a common objective: reducing the role of medicines. It is based on a belief in the relative ineffectiveness of drug innovation, prescription abuse, and general unsustainability of the cost of medicines in developed and developing countries alike. |
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