malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

effect of acute cardiovascular health shocks resulting in unplanned hospitalisation, on blue collars' long-term labour …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …

The association between health outcomes and education – the health-education gradient - is widely documented but little … whether the health-education gradient varies with the quality of the information provided by the health care system, as … proxied by the quality of the General Practitioner. Using an Instrumental Variable approach to control for the potential …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …

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 …

Self-selection into healthcare options biases estimates of the effects of healthcare on health outcomes. We exploit … exogenous variation in the cost of formal-sector care to show that the use of such care improves short-term health outcomes for …

welfare, when the effects on public health are taken into account. In particular, we study how the new international patent … rights enforcement on our definition of public health …