The aim of this article is to research the organization of health care systems and their typical failures in … relationship with the need for health care. It is based on extensive theoretical background from economics and social policy, where … various models of health care. It shows waiting lists, deficits and not realized health care as inevitable attributes of …

The aim of this article is to research the organization of health care systems and their typical failures in … relationship with the need for health care. It is based on extensive theoretical background from economics and social policy, where … various models of health care. It shows waiting lists, deficits and not realized health care as inevitable attributes of …

In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for … Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …

Obesity is a growing health problem in South Africa. This health problem could have various implications for the South …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries …, but do reap a substantial proportion of the health benefits of reduced smoking. …