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che-monash.bsky.social
Boys in disadvantaged communities in Indonesia & Fiji are falling behind girls academically, reflecting a trend seen in many countries globally. A study of 1400+ children in 24 informal settlements found boys averaged 3 hrs less on education vs girls. Read the #CHEResearchBite: go.monash.edu/x4s5jr
May 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Our director, Prof @tony40.bsky.social was interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney Afternoons about the potential impacts of US #tariffs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), the Australian pharmaceutical industry, and drug supplies. Listen to the full interview🎧: go.monash.edu/hegeeu
April 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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che-monash.bsky.social
Will the US trade war push up the price of medicines in Australia? Will there be drug shortages? Read @tony40.bsky.social & colleagues' thoughts on how talks of a trade dispute between the US & Australia over the cost of medicines could play out domestically: go.monash.edu/xhjksh
Will the US trade war push up the price of medicines in Australia? Will there be drug shortages?
All this talk of a US-Australia trade war has left consumers wondering what this means for them. At least in the short term, it looks like good news.
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March 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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che-monash.bsky.social
Apply now for our new Integrated PhD program! Receive rigorous training at the largest #HealthEconomics PhD program in Australia. Opportunities are available across all topics of health economics. Apply by 2 March for a July 2025 start: inomics.com/program/cent...
December 18, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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che-monash.bsky.social
Get a head-start on 2025! Register now for our 1-day short course "Economics of the #HealthWorkforce" on 13 Feb, taught by leading international experts from @che-monash.bsky.social & University of Aberdeen.
#HealthPolicy #HealthEconomics #MedicareAustralia #HumanServices

More info: bit.ly/3OE4Y48
December 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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davebrady72.bsky.social
Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67.

Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social

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The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career
An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …
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December 11, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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denewjohn.bsky.social
Vertical integration of insurers and health care providers allows rorting
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Dec 12
Insurers must spend 80-85% of premiums on care by law. "But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers—by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers—they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care."
As I explained to lawmakers — now more than 15 years ago — for-profit insurers like UnitedHealth and Cigna must assure investors and financial analysts every three months that they know how to control their health plan enrollees’ use of medical goods and services so that plenty of their premium dollars can be diverted to profits. Congress would ultimately include language in the ACA to require health plans to spend at least 80% to 85% of premiums insurers take in on enrollees’ care, known as the medical loss ratio. But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers — by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers — they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care.
December 12, 2024 at 4:58 AM
tony40.bsky.social
We are always and will always be too optimistic about the near term
Future of health care. But it is these visions of how things could be (and should be) that serve to motivate us to do better and inform our goals and missions
ecoiera.bsky.social Enrico Coiera @ecoiera.bsky.social · Dec 12
And for fun, here is one from the vault circa 2004: "Four rules for the reinvention of health care"

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December 12, 2024 at 7:57 AM
tony40.bsky.social
Hope you can join us for a great workshop
che-monash.bsky.social Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School @che-monash.bsky.social · Dec 2
📢CALL FOR PAPERS: 14th Australasian Workshop on #Econometrics & #HealthEconomics
📅16-18 July 2025
📍KL, Malaysia @monashuniversity.bsky.social
📜≤14 papers will be accepted
👶Doctoral students/ECRs strongly encouraged to apply
✉️Submit by 20 Jan 2025: tinyurl.com/2ms8bu4n
December 8, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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statsepi.bsky.social
Looking forward to speaking at the NCTO (ncto.ie) end of year event later today. Thanks to @robertoconnor.bsky.social for the opportunity to have my say.
Title slide: Acting as if our trials might matter: the need for trial statisticians in Ireland By Darren Dahly, Clinical Research Facility at University College Cork Research waste figure from Chalmers and Glasziou 2009: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19525005/
November 27, 2024 at 11:03 AM
tony40.bsky.social
I’m new to this and I’m sure someone has done this before music.apple.com/au/album/mr-...
Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra on Apple Music
Song · 1977 · Duration 5:05
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November 17, 2024 at 12:20 AM