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The Corruption Game: Health Systems, International Agencies, and the State in South Asia
Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Pakistan, India, and Nepal, this article analyzes patterns of corruption in vaccination programs in South Asia. Corrupt practices—which required substantial work—were deeply ... -
Health Organizational Design: Information Exchange and Accountability
(Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online, 2020-05-16)In this article, we introduce two essential components of the field of healthcare organizational design: information exchange and accountability. We emphasize how the limitations from information-exchange and accountability ... -
External Societal Costs of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans Attributable to Antimicrobial Use in Livestock
<jats:p> Antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal agriculture contributes to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in humans, which imposes significant health and economic costs on society. Economists call these costs negative externalities, ... -
Incentive Design for Operations-Marketing Multitasking
A firm hires an agent (e.g., store manager) to undertake both operational and marketing tasks. Marketing tasks boost demand, but for demand to translate into sales, operational effort is required to maintain adequate ... -
High Coping Self-Efficacy Associated With Lower Sweat Inflammatory Cytokines in Adults: A Pilot Study
Introduction/Background: Chronic diseases, like diabetes and heart disease, are considered inflammatory conditions with elevated levels of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha ... -
Market Politics in an Age of Automation
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) -
Heart Analytics: Analytical Modeling of Cardiovascular Care
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death and disability both in the United States and worldwide. Despite high morbidity, mortality, and cost in the US and global healthcare systems, cardiovascular care ... -
Constitutively active ESR1 mutations in gynecologic malignancies and clinical response to estrogen-receptor directed therapies
OBJECTIVE: Endocrine therapy is often considered as a treatment for hormone-responsive gynecologic malignancies. In breast cancer, activating mutations in the estrogen receptor (mutESR1) contribute to therapeutic resistance ... -
Does volunteer community health work empower women? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Women’s Development Army
Abstract Of the millions of Community Health Workers (CHWs) serving their communities across the world, there are approximately twice as many female CHWs as there are male. Hiring women has in many cases ... -
Laissez-Faire
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015) -
New Directions, Then and Now
(Oxford University Press, 2017) -
The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship
(Cornell University Press, 2018) -
THE RADICAL CONSERVATISM OF FRANK H. KNIGHT
This article examines the most prominent interwar economist at the University of Chicago, Frank Knight, through the lens of a controversial 1932 lecture in which he exhorted his audience to vote Communist. The fact that ... -
Conspicuous by Its Absence: Diagnostic Expert Testing under Uncertainty
We study the problem a diagnostic expert (e.g., a physician) faces when offering a diagnosis to a client (e.g., a patient) that may be based only on her own diagnostic ability or supplemented by a diagnostic test—conventional ... -
Biomaterials as vectors for the delivery of CRISPR–Cas9
The emergence of the CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing system has generated considerable hope and excitement in the field of gene therapy and the larger scientific community. Recently, biomaterials have become an attractive option ... -
Co-opetition in Service Clusters with Waiting-Area Entertainment
Problem Definition: Unoccupied waiting feels longer than it actually is. Service providers operationalize this psychological principle by offering entertainment options in waiting areas. A service cluster with a common ...
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