This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

The challenges facing services of general interest in the health and care sectors are particularly severe, both in … health services. Some of these approaches are virtual and strongly needs-based, which means that spatial distance is of ever …

The main determinants of the financial problems of the German statutory health and longterm care systems are …

health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information … care has a negative impact on the self-related health and that neighbourhood and environmental conditions have an impact … too. Furthermore, patient's compliance positively affects the self-related health and in most cases, labour conditions are …

neglect the fact that the production of health not only depends on the medical services supplied by the physician but is also …

implement increased competition in the health insurance system of Germany (or somewhere else), detailed analyses are needed and …A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that … several areas of such an insurance system would have to be regulated by the state. Such a reform is much more complicated than …

This paper surveys the decision-theoretic foundations of health care production and derives policy implications. The … that the efficiency in the adoption of new technology is enhanced. Neither central planning, nor an extension of … specific reforms in ambulatory, stationary and managed care that would help to enhance the innovative capacity and efficiency …