The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

related to health status across middle/low and high-income countries. The dependent variable is self-assessed health (SAH …. Correcting for national differences in health reporting behavior, individual absolute income is found to be positively related to … individual health. Furthermore, in the high-income sample, there is strong evidence that average income within a peer-age group …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …

associated with major health risks, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, and some forms of cancer; large health … establishes the econometric underpinning of an aggregate household health production function and an aggregate household health … supply function using data for 15 high income countries, 1971-2001. Our health production function estimates show that …

Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different … that increases in health (and height) coincide with economic development. …

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent …

A calibrated model is used to determine the welfare impacts of various regulatory instruments for improving health. The … laboratory, information about health effects leads to a statistically significant decrease (increase) in the willingness to pay … subsidy directly internalize health characteristics. The information policy combined with a per-unit tax on tuna and a per …

health or environmental advantages of organic production and consideration of sensory (taste) acceptance. To do this … information was provided was greater than WTP when health information was given. When sensory taste information was included …, however, the WTP estimates under the health information treatment were about twice those under the environmental information …