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 …

health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement, the utilization of health care and social care and the dynamics of …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

the Health Sector Reform Strategy. The last section concludes and provides some policy recommendations. …

information needed by policymakers, investors, and other interested stakeholders. To better understand the current health care …

Der dringend notwendige Reformierungsbedarf in der sozialen Pflegeversicherung hat in jüngster Zeit verschiedene … Mehrausgaben verbunden ist und im Rahmen der Bürgerversicherung eine im Vergleich zum Status quo der Pflegeversicherung verschärfte …