Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …

on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems …

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious … correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first … contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …

or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is … health outcomes. -- Specialization ; experience ; cancer ; survival …

that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999), viz. the cost of morbidity and the cost of mortality … (their "red herring" hypothesis claims that neglecting the mortality component results in excessive estimates of future … not the cost of dying is accounted for, thus qualifying the "red herring" hypothesis. -- Health econometrics ; Aging …

This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health … surveys, an individual’s health as an adult is matched with the history of heat waves from birth to adulthood. A flexible … econometric model is used to identify critical health periods with respect to temperature. It is shown that exposure to higher …

This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the …