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30% of GDP in the United States dedicated to healthcare, unless …

11/07/2013 in Recommended Articles /by ignacioriesgo

PDF of the article: Victro-Fuchs-healthcare-spending Victor Fuchs, probably the most prestigious living health economist in the world, writes an interesting article on the evolution of health spending in the United States in the last 60 years (N Eng J Med 2013; 368: 107-109) A quick summary of it: The difficulty of forecasting health […]

Spanish Hospitals: Critical Emergency Analysis (1991)

20/11/1991 in My Books /by ignacioriesgo

This book was published by the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias. This report is only an approximation to an emergency diagnosis on the situation of Spanish hospitals, particularly public ones. For its preparation, the document “The Spanish Hospitals: Problems and Proposals” delivered by the author in December 1990 to the “Commission for the […]

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