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 …

There is a widespread impression among Canadians that their health-care system is universal, comprehensive and …. The Canada Health Act (CHA) uses the term "medically necessary" to define medical procedures and treatments to be paid for … by the publicly-funded medicare system. In Canada’s health-care system, the term has come to refer almost exclusively to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health …