Introduction Persistently high rates of neonatal and maternal mortality have been associated
with home births in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, …

• For drugs approved in Canada and in the European Union or the United States or both, the
mean delay from first submission in the foreign jurisdiction until submission in Canada was …

This paper examines the effect of the regulations restricting price increases on the evolution
of pharmaceutical prices. A novel theoretical model shows that this policy leads firms to …

Background The rapid development and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines helped reduce the
pandemic’s mortality burden. The vaccine rollout, however, has been uneven; it is well known …

The first generic entrant into Canadian pharmaceutical markets has a surprisingly durable
impact on market share: consistent with past research, we show that first entrants have a boost …

… Ali Shajarizadeh … 1 A short version of this chapter is published in Health Economics:
Shajarizadeh, A., & Hollis, A. (2015). Price‐cap Regulation, Uncertainty and the Price …

Duration dependence affects the dynamics of multi sate time to event outcomes. In this
paper we are testing if a contraction or an expansion state for the housing price is duration …

Microsporidiosis in pet and stray cats is an emerging zoonotic threat with public health
significance worldwide. However, the epidemiological patterns of feline microsporidiosis is still …

The One-Health approach highlights that the health of human populations is closely
connected to the health of animals and their shared environment. Cryptosporidiosis is an …