Quality of life and productivity are two important measures in health outcomes that usually require the use of self …-reported surveys for accurate assessment. Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been established as an important field …. Another health measure that has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years, although there is no gold …

) 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 …

)-specific health-related quality of life (HRQL) scores measured using the Western Ontario and McMaster Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC …) into generic utility-based HRQL scores measured using the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3). Methods: Preintervention …

soll, die für alle Indikationen gültig und interpretierbar ist, wie etwa dem „qualitätsbereinigten Lebensjahr“ (QALY … all indications, such as the “quality-adjusted life-year” (QALY). The present article will take a critical look at the …

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