By: Allison Portnoy (Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) What is financial risk protection? Policymakers use a number of priority-setting frameworks to make decisions but accounting only for health gains and medical costs averted … Continue reading
Public health involves interactions with a variety of professionals each with overlapping values and goals. In comparison to bioethics or medical ethics, which has a strong grounding in the discourse of the individual or autonomous directives, public health ethics has … Continue reading
Placing the Public focuses on the human public, and the strand of the project on vaccination is no exception to this. But it is impossible to write a history of immunisation without reference to animals. From the use of cowpox … Continue reading
The great success story of vaccination in the twentieth century was the eradication of smallpox. Although other public health techniques such as isolation and containment were necessary to eliminate the last few wild cases, vaccination was a key weapon against … Continue reading
By Lauren Braun (MSc Public Health, Health Economics stream). Each year around the world 4 million children die before age 5, and 1 out of 5 of those children dies of disease that could have been prevented if they had … Continue reading