workshop was organised to provide an opportunity for a more detailed discussion by a group of leading health policy analysts of … competition’ is being touted as the answer to the weaknesses in their health care systems. …

Research held on 7-8 March 2002 to explore key policy issues facing Australia's health sector. The Roundtable drew together … thirty leading practitioners and analysts on health policy issues. The topics covered included international developments in … health policy, cost pressures in health care systems, access and service delivery, supplier-induced demand and occupational …

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 …

between private hospitals, doctors and the health insurance funds; and . draws attention to a number of policy issues germane …

The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and … implications of these changes for the nature and consequences of competition in health care markets. In this paper we summarize the … nature of the changes in the structure of the health care industry. We will focus on the markets for health insurance …

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 …

security, especially for the disadvantaged elderly who do not have wealth, health or both. …