February 2025 - Alcohol, salt, TB and waiting times

Hello everyone, 

We are happy to share our new Health Econ On The Go episode. In this episode, we discuss the price society is willing to pay for new drugs, how cash transfer helped tackle TB, a literature review of alcohol and salt and policy modelling and finally the impact of aggregation bias and socioeconomic gradient. 

Papers discussed on this episode: 

1. “What price is society willing to pay for new drugs?” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02562-5/abstract
2. "Cash as medicine: How Brazil slashed TB by tackling poverty" available here: available here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/cash-as-medicine-how-brazil-slashed-tb-by-tackling-poverty/
3. "Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort" available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03381-0
4. “Public health economic modelling in evaluations of salt and/or alcohol policies: a systematic scoping review” available here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11707988/
5. “Aggregation Bias and Socioeconomic Gradients in Waiting Time for Hospital Admissions” available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hec.4913
6. “Current Affairs” Magazine available here: https://www.currentaffairs.org
7. “Apple cider vinegar” available on Netflix

We are always interested in hearing from you, so if you want us to discuss a specific paper next month or even join us to discuss your work, let us know!