healthcare of IBD patients in Germany?" Methods: We combined a claims dataset from a German health insurance fund with population … pathways and guidelines. No clear evidence of a general healthcare undersupply in rural areas was found. …

the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement that reflects a BMI screening program for public school children in the state …

In this paper, we examine the influence of medical malpractice tort reform on the level of private health insurance … ameliorating medical malpractice risk has little effect on health insurance losses incurred by private health insurers. …

Background: Health care expenditures (HCE) are known to steepen with increasing age, but the contributions of ….g. 66 to 70 year olds) at different time points (age-class analysis). Using health insurance claims data including morbidity … and mortality information, HCE growth was analyzed in Swiss mandatory health insurance for the years 1996 to 2011 and …

This article investigates the causal links between health and employment status. To disentangle correlation from … three components and reveal strong dual causality between health and employment status. The findings clearly support demands … for better coordination between employment and health public policies. …

surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is … delivery under Taiwan's National Health Insurance system during the study period, and tocolytic hospitalizations. Methods: The … primary data were obtained from the 1996 to 2004 National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. We hypothesized that a …

of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …