The discussion about health care systems focuses on the dynamics of expenditures and on the weak growth of revenues. In …. Second, a double moral hazard model is developed. Here, the patient’s actions influence health outcome and cannot be … asymmetric information. In addition, lack of knowledge about health status and productivity of health inputs prevent a solution …

empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a … sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked with health care system and with the health status are more and more … connected with the economic sphere, a global approach of Health Economics proves necessary. Prior to the development of such an …

economic slowdowns are good for health. In contrast, at least overweight increases during slumps. …

would be needed in key human service areas, such as health and aged care, where the pressures of an ageing population will …

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

This research demonstrates that human capital accumulation by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health … and health care, and finance is not available for this purpose, a poverty trap exists with low health, education and … nutrition and health impairing human potential, and in particular early child development. This link between health and …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …