consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the substantial fluctuations in … the rate of increase in longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and … models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual …

-- Health and health care -- Dimensons of health in the elderly population / David M. Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum ; comment … of the causal pathways from socioeconomic status to health / Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim … Winter ; comment, Robert J. Willis -- Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the …

smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current …

Michael Grossman's seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

virus (HCV) treatment and put the US on a path to eliminating hepatitis C. Our objective was to project the health benefits … years. These benefits in improved health will save $18.1 billion in direct healthcare spending, of which $13.3 billion would … accrue to the federal government. Over 20 years, the health benefits would increase by more than 2-fold and cost savings by 3 …

Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic … health outcomes. Our findings suggest that subjecting integrated providers to higher-powered reimbursement incentives, i … health services (and other services subject to agency problems) to consider the organizational form of their suppliers when …

satisfaction. Apart from a reduction in self-reported pain, we estimate precise null effects on mental and physical health …

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …