Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

Flu Shots, Work Absences and Hospitalizations: Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure?

Courtney Ward
University of Toronto
November 11, 2008

 
Available at SSRN. 
Abstract: 
In this study, I evaluate the health and economic consequences of a broad-based flu vaccination program. The Ontario Influenza Immunization Campaign was introduced in 2001 and delivers free flu shots to [...]

Insurance Company Covers International Health Tourism

According to the N.Y. Times, health insurer Wellpoint is testing a new program that permits those insured to go to India for elective surgery, with no out-of-pocket medical costs and free travel for both the patient and a companion.  The pilot program arranges for patients to be picked up at the airport and provides special [...]

Indonesia Introduces Legislation to Microchip “Sexually Aggressive” HIV/AIDS Patients

Lawmakers in the Papua province of Indonesia support upcoming legislation that requires “sexually aggressive” HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in order to identify, track and ultimately punish those who deliberately infect others with up to six months in jail or a $5,000 fine.
The proposed legislation has received full support from the provincial parliament [...]

Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

Rethinking Trips: Adequate Remuneration for Non-Voluntary Patent Licensing

Antony Taubman
Australian National University – ANU College of Law

Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 11, Issue 4, pp. 927-970, 2008
Abstract:     
Driven by concerns about access to medicines, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Declaration on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and [...]

U.S. Food and Drug Administration opens office in China

The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday opened an inspection office in Beijing to help China export safer products to America and the world an to boost consumer confidence in products imported from China, reports the LA Times.
 
The new FDA field office, one of three to be opened in China, is the first outside [...]

News Brief: Recent Events in Global Health Law

The UN has banned smoking at “all United Nations indoors premises, including regional and country offices throughout the United Nations system”, and that tobacco sales be banned at “all United Nations premises”. WHO 
About 300 people have died in Zimbabwe in recent weeks in a cholera outbreak which has hit about 6,000 people. The World Health Organization [...]

Banning tv ads could reduce childhood obesity- study

A study published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Law and Economics found that viewing more fast food television commercials raises the risk of obesity in children.
The economists in the study estimated that if the US was to ban fast food adverts from televiosion programs, the number of overweight children in the [...]

Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

Emerging Health Technologies

Ian R. Kerr
University of Ottawa – Common Law
Timothy Caulfield
University of Alberta – Health Law Institute
Canadian Health Law and Policy, pp. 509-538
Abstract:     
This chapter, which is part of the third edition of the well known Canadian text, Canadian Health Law and Policy, briefly surveys four emerging technologies that are likely [...]

News Brief: Recent Events in Global Health Law

The insurance industry has told Congress that it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.  Washington Post
Emerging technologies could boost supplies of essential plant-based drugs to combat and ultimately help eradicate malaria.  BBC
A federal appeals court [...]

Rate of Smoking in the United States Down; So is Use of Settlement Funds

According to the CDC, the U.S. adult smoking rate has fallen below 20 percent (to 19.8 percent) for the first time since the federal government began tracking it in the 1960s. 
In 1965, a year after the U.S. Surgeon General issued a landmark report about the health dangers of tobacco, the smoking rate was over 40 [...]