This chapter summarizes the recent economic literature on health and long-term care as it relates to population aging … for long-term care. Both the supply side and the demand side of the health care markets are undergoing change. This …-term care, primarily among the elderly. It also reviews the main features and problems with insurance markets and quality of …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …

System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and … health care …