Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

This paper surveys the global health economy, with special emphasis on the allocation of resources, the measurement of … industrialized countries and assesses recent and current developments in the German, British and US health systems. …

The report is a result of the Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (AHEAD) project within the … EC 6th Framework programme. The objective of the research was to present the model of future health care system revenues … examines impact of demographic changes and changes in health status on future (up to 2050) health expenditures. Next to it …

Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in … the health care system. In this paper, it is argued that this could be unsuccessful since health care providers hold a … strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described …

are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they … associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed …

Since the prevalence of many chronic health conditions increases with age we might anticipate that as the population … prevalence did not change? How much would the requirements for health care resources increase in those circumstances? How much … rates for almost all conditions associated mostly with old age would rise by more than 25 percent and that health care …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health …, particularly ?justification bias?, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work …