All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) can provide invaluable information about the drivers of cost, the value of health care …, policymakers, and health services researchers. The data collected by APCDs, however, also contains information that individuals …, providers, and insurers would like to remain confidential. Given the sensitivity of individual health information contained in …

The proved influence of inequality of opportunity (luck) and efforts (behavior in relation to health) on the health … status and mortality of individuals bring up the problem of the unequal distribution of health in a given population. This … subject is relatively little discussed in the literature on public health in developing countries including Togo. By focusing …

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

patients in them and thereby facilitate the partnership between patients and physicians that should be the hallmark of health …

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 …

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 …

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. …