Media stories have raised concerns about Florida’s expansion of advanced trauma centers, with newly designated centers charging high trauma activation fees for relatively minor injuries, and Texas has experienced similar expansion in the last decade. In a new working paper, Chair in Health Economics Vivian Ho and her co-authors study the association between trauma center upgrades and patient outcomes — examining Texas commercial claims to track changes in spending, mortality, and readmissions of trauma patients

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The authors explore the history of the resource curse and provide summarize the working paper series titled “The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Resource-Rich Regions.”

Governments in the Gulf Cooperation Council have used oil revenues to provide infrastructure to promote welfare, such as health care, education and public sector jobs, writes the author. This working paper is part of a series titled “The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Resource-Rich Regions.”

This working paper examines the lack of reliable data on the number and quality of drug treatment services in Harris County.

This study shows that HIV prevention is not a priority within Jordan’s health sector and that young people are at a greater risk of infection due to the paucity of sex education and youth-targeted HIV prevention programming.