health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955-2017. German state health ministers have great … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

of illness and whether the baseline is fee-for-service or capitation. Health policy implications, including a cost …

Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical … health challenges that continue post-migration. Better understanding these challenges will help health policy makers and …

People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers … have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common … definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, I generate quasi-objective health indices …

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to … malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health care provider (including, among others, public health centers and …

to the new (health) equilibrium was affected by the additional rewards. Contrary to the pessimistic perspective presented … rewards can result in long-term health behavioral change. …

We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health … function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed … evidence on the relationship between child health and social status. Using data from a unique German child health survey we …