Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

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 …

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 …

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

WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To …