In the international health care literature there is a broad discussion on impactsof competition in health care markets. But aspects of standardization in regionalhealth care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention.We use a typical Hotelling-framework (reference...

We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiplecountries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at olderages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage, much of the analysis is at an earlystage and limited to a...