Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …

This study describes the health dimension and some economic aspects of occupational safety in Latin America and the …. It shows that the region has a very high disease burden in this area, and that economic patterns of employment and public … regulatory responses make these health problems more acute than in Europe or North America. The paper was discussed at an IDB …

This study describes the health dimension and some economic aspects of occupational safety in Latin America and the …. It shows that the region has a very high disease burden in this area, and that economic patterns of employment and public … regulatory responses make these health problems more acute than in Europe or North America. The paper was discussed at an IDB …

The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly. Its … competition opportunities are de facto limited in most health markets. The system operates therefore on a supply-driven basis, and … of good health outcomes and suffer important differences between social groups, raising risks for the future. This …

Since the transformation following the Communist era, Poland has matched improvements in health outcomes of the most … developed OECD countries, although without catching up the ground lost during the 1970s and 1980s. The health status of the … population remains relatively poor, although after controlling for per capita income health outcomes are only slightly below the …

Based on the latest available data up to 2009, the health status of the Hungarian population is among the poorest in … socioeconomic status of the population and lifestyle risks, it also reflects the relatively limited effectiveness of the health care … system, for which relatively low levels of resources have been available: total health spending amounted to 7.4% of GDP in …

This paper investigates the vulnerabilities of health care systems in OECD and BRIICS countries to adverse secular … setting of health care systems, such as the public-private mix and the main sources of revenues, and the need to balance …

This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data … on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation … of health care systems and the identification of groups of countries sharing similar health institutions. It also helps …

improvements in children's health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however …