This thesis contains three essays on topics from the field of Applied Health Economics. Two major subdivisions of the … health care system, the health- and nursing care market, were closer investigated. In particular, the effect of public … reporting on nursing home quality in Germany was analyzed. Further, it was examined whether a change of health insurance may …

determinants of public health. Each of the book’s four sections includes an introduction that contextualizes the issues and … on health economics, as well as the work others have done to advance and extend his innovative perspective ….Determinants of Health explains how the economic choices people make influence health and health behaviors. It begins with a section …

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper … investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …