This is a study of international disparities in prescription drug prices between the United States and five OECD nations (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K.).

In the next four years, Russian policy toward the United States will be shaped largely by the components of a powerful and complicated social and political trend.

The impact of air quality improvements on individuals' well-being has been the subject of inquiry by many scholars over the past several decades.

To better understand the determinants of health spending, it is important to distinguish spending on chronic health conditions from spending on patients with chronic health conditions.

The OECD has undertaken a statistical analysis of the determinants of health and the relative efficiency of the health care systems of OECD member countries.

There remains a widely perceived notion—still commonly held within intellectual, academic, and policy circles in the West and elsewhere—that ―Muslim societies are especially resistant to embarking upon the path of demographic and familial change. But such notions speak to a bygone era

Both my own research and reading in the literature suggests that EPA has serious problems in the way it employs scientific information when it assesses both the potential benefits, and potential costs of existing and proposed public policies.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.