are needed. The way forward should involve a global approach that engages all relevant actors and looks beyond the health …

driving the costs of pharmaceuticals, and develop a structured vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to measure the social rate …This study examines the relationship between pharmaceutical R&D and health care expenditures, distinguishing between … patents are not correlated with higher short-run prices in any measure of medical costs. They are associated with higher long …

Billions of dollars have been spent on pilot programs searching for ways to reduce healthcare costs. I study one such … program, where hospitals pay doctors bonuses for reducing the total hospital costs of admitted Medicare patients (a â …, and sorting healthier patients into participating hospitals. Conditional on patient health, however, doctors do not reduce …

impacts on maternal health care costs, either of a physical or of a mental in nature, as measured by physicians? fee …- delivery, we estimate the causal effects of two major distinct parental leave reforms on maternal health outcomes, over a … period of 5 years postpartum. The health outcomes are objective measures based on all types of medical services provided by …

-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference … co-payments. We use quarterly data on reference priced drugs covered by the social health insurance in Germany over the …

limited to medicines dispensed in community pharmacies. However, spending on pharmaceuticals used elsewhere in the health …As a key component of health care, a full understanding of how much is spent on prescription medicines is increasingly … important. Only a partial understanding of total expenditures across health systems is currently possible, as reporting is often …

Health spending per capita in England has more than doubled since 1997, yet relatively little is known about how that … spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the …

This study examines whether health care is affected by Baumol’s cost disease in a scenario of no growth. Baumol's model … working hours. In both scenarios the cost disease does not affects the health care. However, in the second scenario an … relative cost of health care will increase over the years. Therefore, although the cost disease does not affect the health …

While the long-term consequences of unmet child mental health needs are well-documented, out-of-pocket costs remain an … results suggest that reductions in out-of-pocket costs could help achieve better uptake of mental health treatment, without … insurance program in Québec, Canada, to estimate the impact of out-of-pocket costs on uptake of pharmaceutical treatment for …