, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …

In this paper we concentrate on the question whether the financing structure of the health care systems converges. In a … world of increasing economic integration convergence in health care financing (HCF) and, hence, decreasing differences in …

Due to rising health care expenditure international comparisons of health care systems are recently gaining more … importance. These benchmarks can provide interesting information for improving health care systems. Many of these comparisons … regard to the existing cultural differences in the understanding of justice the transferability of elements of health care …

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 …

Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between … sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they … neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …

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 …

division between the health care system and the social system and the weak integration of these two parts of LTC services. The …