The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second …-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and …

and patients’ health, and the optimal discharge date before the reform. Testing the results with data, we find a large … negative effect on bed-blocking and discharge date. Thus, financial incentives may count more than health incentives, or health …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic … insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply … managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to lower public health expenditures and to enhance cost efficiency and …

In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public … health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care … market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …

In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public … health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care … market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …