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Can Rights Make Any Difference for Access to Health? Insights from a Scoping Review on Constitutional Rights for the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All

Bill of Health

Over time, these social movements may eventually secure increased public investment (pillar 2), as seen in Brazil, where the right to health played a role in directing the State towards a leading position in the national pharmaceutical industrial complex (pillar 3).

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

In fact, if you knew that the business model of PLM was always to package and sell data to researchers, including the pharmaceutical industry, you may shrug your shoulders and assume there is no fundamental change. You go, the doctor writes stuff down with a pen in your file, end of story. Not really.