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 …

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 …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

This paper provides fi eld evidence on (a) how price framing aff ects consumers' decision to switch health insurance … plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required …

To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a …, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of existing health plans, across employers and state-borders. This paper … market price dispersion. Moreover, it (b) characterizes health plan switchers and their annual and cumulative switching rates …

better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial … situation during childhood on quality of life after retirement as well as the mediating role of later life health, educational …. The analyses are based on data of 13,092 retirees aged > 60 and < 85 years from the fifth wave of the Survey of Health …

effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide evidence that this is likely caused by changes towards adverse health … behaviours as a reaction to stress. Investigating the possible protective effects of mental health support, I find that it can … associated with mental health care. Finally, I show that my results are robust to specific departure of my identifying …

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 …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … intervention, the respondents in the treated group perceived their own health status as better than their hypothetical untreated …

In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for … its purpose in the context of the Millennium Development Goals #4 and #5 which deal with the health of women and children … compare health outcomes of recent mothers who are enrolled in the NHIS with those who are not. Our findings suggest that NHIS …