This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and … surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health … conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity …

health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … inequality in government output (health expenditure per capita) and outcome (health system satisfaction) during expansion of … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and … medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health … state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on …

System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand … that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending … health care, while spending at the very top of the OOP distribution was reduced by one-half representing substantial …

demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while …