This paper aims to shed light on the contribution of health care and other determinants to the health status of the … population and to provide evidence on whether or not health care resources are producing similar value for money across OECD … countries. First, it discusses the pros and cons of various indicators of the health status, concluding that mortality and …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed … and, at the same time, working affects the health status. Because these two variables are determined simultaneously …

but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create …

stress causes poor health outcomes – either directly through increased blood pressure, fatigue, muscle pain, etc. or … health. Areas in which economists may provide valuable insights regarding job stress include empirical selection concerns in … identifying the effect of stress on health; measurement error with respect to stress; the existence and magnitude of compensating …

efficient and well-targeted redistribution; and to make health and old-age pension insurance more inclusive. This working paper …

among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a given level of spending outcomes fall short by around 3.5% in health care …

incentives for teachers. Performance of public services devoted to health and transports has been mixed. Public health services …

efficiency without undermining the quality of in kind services on secondary education, health care and public administration … regressive. The delivery of health care could be improved by rationalising inpatient care and enhancing costeffective primary … financing of health and long-term care are the main policy priorities to contain the pressure of population ageing on …