Health Policy Newsletter - June 2015
Do patients and physicians agree on releasing abnormal test results directly to patients?
May 30, 2015 3353 Results
Getting a Grip: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iranian Threat
Iran — as it has since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 — represents a challenge to U.S. foreign policy. But it is one best…
May 21, 2015 
Blue Marble Health and “The Big Three Diseases”: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
“Blue marble health” was introduced in 2013 as a policy framework to better understand new trends in the geographic…
May 21, 2015 
Latin America Initiative | Research Paper
Chile’s Gender Quota: Will It Work? In April 2015, Chile passed a gender quota law as part of a larger reform to the country’s election laws. Quotas are not new…
May 19, 2015 
Texas Should Ease Regulatory Hurdles for Aquifer Storage and Recovery Programs
Texas loses between five to six million acre-feet of water per year to evaporation from surface water supply reservoirs…
May 18, 2015 
The Political Economy of Arab Gulf States
The ties binding the Arab Gulf states into the global economy are both deep-rooted and long predate the discovery and…
May 8, 2015 
Boko Haram: Whose Islamic State?
Boko Haram may be reaching its bitter end in Nigeria as the the country's military, with the support of Niger, Cameroon, and…
May 1, 2015 
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Student Publication
Students: Apply for a Research Grant The Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy announces a
new annual grant program…
May 1, 2015 
Preponderant Agent, What Is That? May 1, 2015
Abstract
Preponderant agent is a new instrument for preventing and reverting adverse impact in competition due to highly…
Helminth Elimination in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals: A “Worm Index” for Human Development
Increasing evidence links the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) to a significant adverse impact on both human and…
April 30, 2015