) 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 …

on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … constant for men and women at different points on the conditional earnings distribution by using robust and quantile regression … techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with …

and health policy decision-making. It can estimate absolute benefits, risks and costs of long-term preventive strategies …

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore some issues regarding the career development of men and women retail … dominated by male norms and values and this has implications for the way in which men and women managers experience their jobs …

In the 1980s, both wages and labor supply of poorly educated men fell substantially relative to those of educated men … hours and wages. The small implied labor supply elasticities suggest that very little of the labor supply changes of men …

Health surveillance can be viewed as an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data for use in … planning, implementation, and evaluation of a given health system, in potentially multiple spheres (ex: animal, human … health surveillance methods and systems that will rapidly identify potential bioterrorism attacks and infectious disease …