This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

wider context scrutinised to assess potential consequences. Current risk regulation and GM legislation is narrowly defined …, and largely concerned with scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment. This contrasts with the public …

In this chapter I argue that as a response to the introduction of capital requirements in the form of risk weights … that the new optimum has a lower risk. The effect of the regulation depends on several things, most importantly the … correlation between individual investments, investor preferences and the relative size of risk weights. …

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

Human Resources in Health is becoming important in these days. The Human Resources is an important area to be addressed … for better healthcare delivery. Health is a sector which depends much on the human resources compared to other sectors …. The human resources is the base for carrying out the services in health. The human resources in health includes …

interventions in the health sector in the early phase of the epidemic can strongly mitigate its adverse effects. …

This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …

We analyse the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel … such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the … continually employed. Hence, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unemployed. This explains why, in …

This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of … stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …