Die Privatisierung von Krankenhäusern, d.h. der Trägerwechsel von kommunalen und privat-freigemeinnützigen hin zu privat-gewinnorientierten Trägern wird seit Beginn dieser Entwicklung Anfang der 1990er Jahre kontrovers diskutiert. Zur Versachlichung der Debatte wurde im Jahr 2009 das...

Die Privatisierung von Krankenhäusern, d.h. der Trägerwechsel von kommunalen und privat-freigemeinnützigen hin zu privat-gewinnorientierten Trägern wird seit Beginn dieser Entwicklung Anfang der 1990er Jahre kontrovers diskutiert. Zur Versachlichung der Debatte wurde im Jahr 2009 das...

This paper examines the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, the potential of monetary incentives to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were assigned to two treatment groups, which were...

We consider the implications of Germany's demographic development on the regional structure of rural hospital care. According to different predictions regional disparities will arise. This will lead to a legal conflict with the German constitution which demands nationwide close-to-home hospital...

The privatisation of hospitals, i.e. a change in their type of ownership from the municipal and private non-profit type to the private profit-oriented type, has been the subject of heated debate ever since this development began back in the early 1990s. To objectivise this debate, the Fact Books...

This paper examines weight loss and the formation of healthy habits through cash rewards in the context of a multi-phase randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese individuals. We find effects of monetary incentives for weight loss of up to EUR 300 on body weight during all experimental...