Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the … owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating environmental conditions. Supply of health care is overwhelmingly provided … basic health care by 2020. They involve investment in medical infrastructure, generalising coverage, more focus on …

, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio …-economic divides are reflected in differences in health outcomes. To date the health-care system, centred on four health funds, is … accommodating demand for private health care. However, there are challenges and tensions in the system. Currently the authorities …

In spite of improvements, on various measures of health outcomes the United States appears to rank relatively poorly … among OECD countries. Health expenditures, in contrast, are significantly higher than in any other OECD country. While there … are factors beyond the health-care system itself that contribute to this gap in performance, there is also likely to be …

well as the health benefits arising from the reduction in local air pollution. The shadow price of pollution is calculated … indirectly through its impact on life expectancy. Taking into account the health benefits of mitigation policies significantly …

with previous studies of subjective wellbeing, show that, apart from income, the state of health, not being unemployed, and … progress with wellbeing in general, or what seems to matter for wellbeing—health, being employed and social contacts-- beyond …

strengthen social welfare systems and access to health and education to ensure widespread benefits from continued high growth …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed … and, at the same time, working affects the health status. Because these two variables are determined simultaneously …

but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create …

stress causes poor health outcomes – either directly through increased blood pressure, fatigue, muscle pain, etc. or … health. Areas in which economists may provide valuable insights regarding job stress include empirical selection concerns in … identifying the effect of stress on health; measurement error with respect to stress; the existence and magnitude of compensating …