Influenza imposes substantial costs worldwide in terms of human lives and productivity losses. Vaccination could be a … cost-effective way to reduce these costs for firms and public health institutions, but low take-up rates, particularly of … manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to …

This paper presents an overlapping generations model where agents face labor-income and health risks in order to … quantify the macroeconomic and welfare consequences of reform options for the German health insurance system. In addition to … labor supply, consumption and savings, households also choose health expenditures in order to improve the health status and …

There's no doubt that the risk factors typical of a certain lifestyle which may have a negative impact on human health … are numerous, especially considering that research in health (medicine, pharmacology etc) were focused on their …