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 …

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 …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …