, 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 …

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 …

Korea’s health-care system has contributed to the marked improvement in health conditions, while limiting spending to … one of the lowest levels in the OECD through high patient co-payments and limited coverage of public health insurance … payments for health will be an increasing drag on employment as the population ages, it is necessary to raise the share of tax …

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 …