The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years … who has a large proportion of health care performed by alternative producers are more economically efficient than other … efficiently. - economic efficiency in health care ; data envelopment analysis ; Tobit regression …

In this paper we analyze the links between health status (measured by selfreported illness occurrence) and individuals …, have a smaller probability of reporting a bad health status. We also find that the probability of reporting a bad health … status has a descendent trend in the period, falling from 0,33 in 1991 to 0,25 in 2000. -- health capital ; health status …

We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect … main relationship is between happiness and health status. Whether this is a causal effect or a correlation, is not clear …. This issue is explo red using matching methods, finding that a good health status increases the probability of being happy …

calculations suggest through changed attitudes to health, medical advances, and increased rehabilitation and prevention measures …

. Soziale Unterschiede zeigen sich bereits bei der Gesundheit von Neugeborenen: Mütter mit höherer Bildung bringen seltener … Frühgeburten und Kinder mit niedrigem Geburtsgewicht zur Welt. Eine gesundheitliche Ungleichheit besteht demnach von Geburt an …). At least some of these health-related differences can be causally attributed to the mother's education. Social …

The article is an attempt at diagnosing training needs of the employees of units operating in health care sector in the … Podkarpacie Province. In times of permanent changes affecting each sphere of economy, providers of health care services cannot … by employees of Health Care Centers (HCC) operating in the Podkarpacie Province, but also the way they are perceived by …