Background Health science is evolving extremely rapidly at worldwide level. There is a large volume of articles about health economics that are published each year. The main purpose of this research is to explore health economics in the world's scholarly literature based on a scient metric...

Rationale: Predictions of the demand for, or perceived benefits of, health interventions tend to be made from the results of a single study. This has prompted researchers to explore alternative approaches to derive parameter estimates. The increasing use of WTP in malaria control interventions...

The main objective was to find association between basal cortisol and neighborhood-level stress. Systematic searches, including electronic and hand searches, were conducted. The most recent date of the search was July 26, 2013. Primary observational studies included if they considered stress...

This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures concerning school evaluation in primary and secondary education within the OECD countries. First, it provides a typology of the existing systems of school evaluation across the OECD. It encompasses the diverse criteria and...

The measurement of the impact of technology as a driver of health care expenditure is complex since technological effects are closely interlinked with other determinants such as income and the composition and health status of a population. Furthermore, the impact of the supply of advances in...

This was a systematic review to explore the nature of marketing of healthcare organisations in an international context. The objectives were to: systematically collect, document, scrutinise and critically analyse the current research literature on healthcare marketing; establish the scope of...

This paper reviews the recent economic research on the relationship between health insurance and labor markets in the U.S., with an emphasis on research that has emerged since existing major reviews and the aim of identifying the types of data that are needed for this research to progress. We...

We evaluate evidence for the effectiveness of raising minimum wages on various measures of public health within the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe. We search four scientific websites from the inception of the research through May 20, 2018. We find great variety (20 ) in measured outcomes among...

A 2005 survey reveals that U.S. health economists spend approximately 55 percent of their professional time on research. Assistant, associate and full professors, on average, reported publishing 8.8, 17.0 and 22.1 peer reviewed papers, respectively, over the past five years. Non-academic health...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is the most prestigious and coveted award in medical research. Anecdotal evidence and related research suggest that receiving it may adversely affect research productivity. We compared the post-Nobel research output of laureates (prize years: 1950-2010)...