Futurists, investors, and health-law programs all try to catch a glimpse of the future of healthcare. Lucky for you …

With today’s escalating demands for accountability, Canada’s academic-linked health policy centres are feeling pressure … from key funders to prove their effectiveness. At the same time, their contributions through applied health services and … policy research and knowledge-transfer activities have become increasingly critical to health policy development and decision …

The creation of tax-free health savings accounts presents a new opportunity to reduce the distortions created by … federal tax preferences for health-related expenditures, and ultimately help eliminate those distortions. This paper proposes … health benefits as a tax-free cash contribution into the worker's health savings account. Restructuring the exclusion for …

This study examines the relationship between pharmaceutical R&D and health care expenditures, distinguishing between …

Germany’s healthcare system is praised as one of the best in the world. In this article, we review Germany’s health … system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes …, and access. Whilst health provision and access are comparably high, signs of technical inefficiencies exist. Although …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …