-physician consultations, the diagnoses, and patients' self-management of any subsequent treatment plans. The development of the online tools … used a design science approach and those tools evaluated for usefulness and ease of use by physicians and the general …

Early investigations of the neuroticism by conscientiousness interaction with regards to health have been promising … measurement instruments, varying populations, or aspects of health. The current study – the second of three – uses a coordinated …

This paper examines the role of the health gradient – the positive correlation between household income and health – in …-specific health gradients and find their slope increases with age, but declines among retired workers. We then estimate a variety of … parametric and semi-parametric duration models and find that workers' position relative to the agegroup-specific health gradient …

The assumption that participation - understood as involvement in decision-making - impacts positively on health … individual health. The assumption that more decision-making participation leads to greater health opportunities may indeed appear …, Kohärenzgefühl/sense of coherence und Gesund-heitskompetenz/health literacy. Deutlich wird dabei, dass in all diesen Konzepten und …

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …

development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators …, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium Development Goals, influence such decisions. The analysis reveals that … health indicators are important determinants of the selection and allocation process for health assistance but to a different …

This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression … characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship are argued to be important determinants. The results show that health indicators … influence the average allocation decision, but not to the same degree. HIV prevalence significantly increases aid receipts …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …