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Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan

Cutler, David M. (contributor); Wise, David A. (ed.); … - 2006

Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems …. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United … States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in Japan are among the world’s longest. Clearly, a great deal can be learned …

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Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Andreyeva, Tatiana (contributor); Banks, James (contributor) - 2012

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in life. Building on findings from earlier...

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Analyses in the Economics of Aging

Börsch-Supan, Axel (contributor); Case, Anne (contributor); … - 2005

Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement...

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