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Resources for the Future has a long tradition of pioneering research on health issues, including early work on schistosomiasis control, fertility, and a seminal 1970 study exploring the link between air pollution and mortality. Today RFF researchers are building on that tradition by employing creative approaches to a host of health-related policy challenges. These include responding to the growing threat of drug resistance in disease-causing pathogens, valuing disparate health outcomes, setting disease control priorities and health policy in developing countries, devising strategies to control and eliminate malaria, and enhancing food safety. By applying methods first developed in the environmental economics field to the analysis of health issues, RFF research is opening up new avenues for cross-disciplinary research and policy solutions.
FEATURES
Hospital-Acquired Infections: Costly Killers
Sepsis and pneumonia – caused by deadly microbes picked up in hospitals – take the lives of 48,000 patients annually – adding more than $8 billion in health care costs.
Measuring the Costs of Air Pollution in China
Resources Magazine: China’s booming growth has also brought rapidly rising air pollution. A new study finds that reductions in pollution could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
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PROJECTS
Extending the Cure
The Extending the Cure project is a research and consultative effort that frames the growing problem of antibiotic resistance as a challenge in managing a shared societal resource.
PUBLICATIONS
Diversify or Focus? Spending to Combat Infectious Diseases When Budgets Are Tight
Soren T. Anderson, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Stephen W. Salant
RFF Discussion Paper 10-15 | March 2010
 
Determinants of Performance of Drinking-Water Community Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Case Studies in Rural Costa Rica
Róger Madrigal, Francisco Alpízar, Achim Schlüter
RFF Discussion Paper EfD 10-03 | February 2010
 
Clinical and Economic Outcomes Attributable to Health Care-Associated Sepsis and Pneumonia
Eber M.R., Laxminarayan R., Perencevich E.N., Malani A.
Archives of Internal Medicine | 2010 | Vol. 170, No. 4 | pp. 347-353
 
Increasing Resistance of Acinetobacter Species to Imipenem in United States Hospitals, 1999-2006
Hoffman M.S., Eber M.R., Laxminarayan R.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2010 | Vol. 31, No. 2 | pp. 196-197
 
Cost Effectiveness Analysis for Treating Vitamin A Deficiency in India
Jeff, C., E. Klein, R. Laxminarayan
PLOS One | Forthcoming
 
Antibiotic Effectiveness: New Challenges in Natural Resource Management
Hermann, M., R. Laxminarayan
Annual Review of Resource Economics | Forthcoming
 
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 Video Interview 

Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick discusses his research into lead paint exposure in children.

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