financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …

A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that … implement increased competition in the health insurance system of Germany (or somewhere else), detailed analyses are needed and …

preserving incentives for an efficient delivery of health care services. In particular, we examine the inclusion of additional …

As part of the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act a co-payment of €10 per quarter for the first contact at a … consolidation of the Statutory Health Insurance the co-payment aimed at changing the patients' behaviour towards more … physician contacts still take place e.g. in case of disabled persons and persons with poor health. In addition no discrimination …

Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state …

habits proved stronger in states that had more strict smoking bans. Public smoking bans, therefore, have important health …

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both …. First, I find no evidence that physician density is endogenous. Second, conditional on health, privately insured patients … patients insured in the statutory health care system, whereas, fourth, physician density has no effect on privately insured …

of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian Demographic and Health Survey, we examine the …