Warren A Kaplan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6060796 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Warren A Kaplan |
| PRENOMES | Warren A |
| SOBRENOME | Kaplan |
| ASSINATURA | KAPLAN W A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6127-4820 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Policy responses to Covid-19
BACKGROUND: During the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has cost millions of lives around the globe, caused major morbidity and provoked widespread economic and social disruption. In response, governments have enacted policies to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. This research focuses in on policies aimed at increasing access to essential health products and services by comparing them to the global rules governing trade, investment and i…
Do Chinese Older Adults Rely on Social Insurance Schemes? Primary Coverage on out-of-Pocket Medical Expenses for Outpatient and Inpatient Treatments
This study assesses the associations between primary sources of insurance coverage and out-of-pocket outpatient and inpatient medical expenses among Chinese older adults. The 2012 and 2014 waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (n = 6,924) were analyzed. Sources of coverage for survey participants were recorded as the: New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), Urban Employment Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), and the Urban Reside…
Social Insurance and Older Adults in China
Education and income have been considered two primary determinants to affect individuals’ health outcomes. China initiated a comprehensive health reform in 2009, with the goals to provide equal access yet sufficient healthcare to all residents. However, social disparities continue to persist following this large reform. This research hypothesized that older adults’ years of education and income are determinants of participation in each social ins…
Global Policy Surveillance and Legal Epidemiology
Impacts of intellectual property provisions in trade treaties on access to medicine in low and middle income countries
Trade in medicines and the public's health
BACKGROUND: Nepal was struck by devastating earthquakes in April-May 2015, followed by the India-Nepal border blockade later that year. METHODS: We used the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics (UN Comtrade) database to analyse exports of various health commodities from India to Nepal from January 2011-September 2016. We used time-series regressions of trading volume vs. unit price to ask how well Nepal's trading history with India prior to …
Role of the private sector in vaccination service delivery in India
BACKGROUND: India's Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) provides basic vaccines free-of-cost in the public sector, yet national vaccination coverage is poor. The Government of India has urged an expanded role for the private sector to help achieve universal immunization coverage. We conducted a state-by-state analysis of the role of the private sector in vaccinating Indian children against each of the six primary childhood diseases covered und…
Paying for pharmaceutical registration in developing countries
Fees charged by drug regulatory authorities (DRAs) may be used as a policy instrument to speed up regulatory approval, to encourage retention of quality staff and to stimulate introduction of generics versus new chemical entities. Often, the cost recovery function of these registration fees is not related to the true cost of the pharmaceutical regulatory process. In this paper, we scaled new drug registration fees of various DRAs to indices of ec…
Role of the private sector in vaccination service delivery in India
BACKGROUND: India's Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) provides basic vaccines free-of-cost in the public sector, yet national vaccination coverage is poor. The Government of India has urged an expanded role for the private sector to help achieve universal immunization coverage. We conducted a state-by-state analysis of the role of the private sector in vaccinating Indian children against each of the six primary childhood diseases covered und…
Paying for pharmaceutical registration in developing countries
Fees charged by drug regulatory authorities (DRAs) may be used as a policy instrument to speed up regulatory approval, to encourage retention of quality staff and to stimulate introduction of generics versus new chemical entities. Often, the cost recovery function of these registration fees is not related to the true cost of the pharmaceutical regulatory process. In this paper, we scaled new drug registration fees of various DRAs to indices of ec…
Role of the private sector in vaccination service delivery in India
BACKGROUND: India's Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) provides basic vaccines free-of-cost in the public sector, yet national vaccination coverage is poor. The Government of India has urged an expanded role for the private sector to help achieve universal immunization coverage. We conducted a state-by-state analysis of the role of the private sector in vaccinating Indian children against each of the six primary childhood diseases covered und…
Trade in medicines and the public's health
BACKGROUND: Nepal was struck by devastating earthquakes in April-May 2015, followed by the India-Nepal border blockade later that year. METHODS: We used the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics (UN Comtrade) database to analyse exports of various health commodities from India to Nepal from January 2011-September 2016. We used time-series regressions of trading volume vs. unit price to ask how well Nepal's trading history with India prior to …
Impacts of intellectual property provisions in trade treaties on access to medicine in low and middle income countries
Social Insurance and Older Adults in China
Education and income have been considered two primary determinants to affect individuals’ health outcomes. China initiated a comprehensive health reform in 2009, with the goals to provide equal access yet sufficient healthcare to all residents. However, social disparities continue to persist following this large reform. This research hypothesized that older adults’ years of education and income are determinants of participation in each social ins…
Global Policy Surveillance and Legal Epidemiology
Do Chinese Older Adults Rely on Social Insurance Schemes? Primary Coverage on out-of-Pocket Medical Expenses for Outpatient and Inpatient Treatments
This study assesses the associations between primary sources of insurance coverage and out-of-pocket outpatient and inpatient medical expenses among Chinese older adults. The 2012 and 2014 waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (n = 6,924) were analyzed. Sources of coverage for survey participants were recorded as the: New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), Urban Employment Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), and the Urban Reside…
Policy responses to Covid-19
BACKGROUND: During the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has cost millions of lives around the globe, caused major morbidity and provoked widespread economic and social disruption. In response, governments have enacted policies to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. This research focuses in on policies aimed at increasing access to essential health products and services by comparing them to the global rules governing trade, investment and i…
Economics (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras) · Developing country (2 obras) · Finance (2 obras) · Global Health Care Issues (2 obras) · Global Security and Public Health (2 obras) · Health care (2 obras) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (2 obras)