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 … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

We generalize extant health capital models to provide an economic explanation for why individuals invest in health when … survival and/or longevity prospects are poor. We allow relative health to impact utility and model depreciation as an amount … rather than a rate. As a result, the decline in health causes an inevitable disequilibrium between an increasing marginal …

There are many existing methodologies on measuring health equity, while seldom has method aiming at health resource … allocation. We collected 6 method of measuring equity in health resource allocation. This paper presents key contents of methods … on measuring horizontal equity in health service allocation, yet each method has its advantages and disadvantages as well …

Gesundheitswesen. Reaktionen hierauf sind zusehends Beitragssatzsteigerungen und Kostendämpfungsmaßnahmen, weshalb der Markt für … Gesundheit für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung herausgearbeitet. Darüber hinaus wird das Zusammenspiel von Gesundheit und Bildung … die wesentlichen Determinanten eines guten Gesundheitsverhaltens sowie einer guten Gesundheit als Voraussetzung für …

In this paper, it is discuss methods to allocate national health care funds to purchasers or insurers of health care … health care or health outcome. Capitation should be based on epidemiological or socio-demographic need factors. The author …

article presents a normative theory for analyzing federal health policy decision making in the United States. This theory … have a central role in understanding health policy reform. This theory does not attempt to arrive at a single unified …The years 2003-2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the rapid rise and demise of the Clinton administration's 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 …

: Despite the global agenda of universal health coverage, this paper reveals that 86 percent of Tanzania lacks health insurance … with a high degree of inequitable distribution of health facilities as 71.54 percent of the population is in rural areas …, yet these areas have poor health systems compared to urban ones. These disparities increase pressure on household …