literature on child health has focused on one such intervention, the provision of public health insurance. However, the …This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two …

from a societal perspective: ex ante moral hazard from health insurance, externalities from vaccinations, lack of consumer … periodic health examinations to private health lifestyle decisions such as regular exercise and non-smoking. The aim of this … prevention means, the chapter reviews some basic theoretical insights about prevention from human capital models and insurance …

worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …

—such as information on health workforce, resources, hospitalisations, and mortality. Many policy makers have since leveraged …, policies and institutions that have kept countries from fully utilising health related data. Health data governance reforms, in … capacity for data sharing in regard to existing national personal health datasets were widely reported. Countries have also …

The measurement of the impact of technology as a driver of health care expenditure is complex since technological … effects are closely interlinked with other determinants such as income and the composition and health status of a population …. Furthermore, the impact of the supply of advances in technology on health expenditure cannot be considered in isolation from …

efficiency incentives. Disparities of coverage across social groups and health services suggest paying greater attention to co …France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology …

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …