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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the necessity and the methodologies of assessing outcomes as part of the evaluation of health services and health programmes.

Der deutsche Krankenhaussektor hat in den letzten Jahren eine sehr dynamische Entwicklung genommen, die mit einer deutlichen Wettbewerbsverschärfung einhergegangen ist. Um die eigene Existenz zu sichern, ist es für Krankenhäuser erforderlich geworden, auf moderne Controllinginstrumente...

At present Germany experiences a shake-up of the hospital industry, following the introduction of a DRG-based hospital budgeting system. Hospital owners re-evaluate their assets and adapt their strategies to the new regulatory environment. Benchmarking studies play a vital role in assessing own...

Im Rahmen einer Krankenhausprivatisierung kommt es regelmäßig zur Bestimmung des Verkaufspreises des betroffenen Krankenhauses/Klinikums. Nach der Darstellung möglicher Methoden zur Unternehmensbewertung werden die Besonderheiten einer Krankenhausbewertung anhand der Discounted Cash-flow...

This paper introduces endogenous longevity risk in an otherwisestandard overlapping generations model with capital. In the model, an agent mayincrease the length of her old age by incurring investments in her own health fundedfrom her wage income. Such private health investments are more...

Chakraborty [Journal of Economic Theory, 2004] introduces endogenousmortality in a two period overlapping generations model by postulating thatthe probability of surviving from the first period to the second depends on taxfundedpublic health. His central result on the existence of multiple...