) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

their impact on employment, but also on health. Beside a theoretical presentation, the article highlights the evolution … the nature, direction and intensity of the connection between the number of conflicts and employment, using simple linear … situations amplify the misbalance on the labor market, but also trigger effects regarding the physical and psychological health …

is played.The final essay is on moral hazard, market power and the demand for health insurance. The issue of health …

and employment. The previous paper described an economy in which households choose whether to enter the labor and product … markets based on wages and prices. Firms experiment with prices and employment levels to maximize their profits. We developed …-firm economies converge toward the competitive equilibria typified by lower prices and higher output and employment, but also suffer …

positive impact on consumption (by reducing precautionary saving). Takeaways •The strength of the labour market and the rising …

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 …