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 …

NHS waiting lists (in England, given that health is a devolved responsibility) over the last 17 years - the period for …

from conception to childhood - affect a child's health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of … research had emerged, incorporating the original 'Fetal Origins Hypothesis' into the 'Developmental Origins of Health and … Disease'. Evidence from OECD countries suggests that health inequalities are strongly correlated with many dimensions of socio …

from conception to childhood - affect a child's health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of … research had emerged, incorporating the original "Fetal Origins Hypothesis" into the "Developmental Origins of Health and … Disease". Evidence from OECD countries suggests that health inequalities are strongly correlated with many dimensions of socio …

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 …