This thesis contains three essays on topics from the field of Applied Health Economics. Two major subdivisions of the … health care system, the health- and nursing care market, were closer investigated. In particular, the effect of public … reporting on nursing home quality in Germany was analyzed. Further, it was examined whether a change of health insurance may …

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper … investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

stock of health, the impact of health on productivity, and the importance of health for utility and it is robust against the …This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health …

Background: Concerns about rising health care costs require rigorous economic study to inform clinical and policy … methodological and reporting quality through economic evaluation guidelines (Evers, Drummond, Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation … Reporting Standards (CHEERS), Fukuda and Imanaka checklists). Following the Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine …

The purpose of this study is to estimate a health production function of Bangladesh. It searches how individual health … examining socio-demographic parameters shock upon individual health status. This model is statistically significant. This … investigation provides an important role in that individual data gives an insight on how to get better you overall health status …

The authors present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used … assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an “optimal” level without adjustment costs. The … Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health threshold above which individuals do not demand medical care. Their …