Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policymakers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists. Unfortunately, while both groups of scientists use many of the same basic...

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...

The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only...

This work is a compilation of studies produced at the Social Studies Department - Disoc/Ipea to support the elaboration of the document Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007. Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 and the role of the government in health care are...

Dieser Aufsatz stellt die entscheidungstheoretischen Grundlagen der Produktion von Gesundheitsleistungen dar und leitet daraus Schlussfolgerungen für die Gesundheitspolitik ab. Die bedeutendste Herausforderung am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts liegt darin, die Diffusion neuen medizinischen Wissens...

An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...

Bundesgesundheitsminister Rösler sieht in einer der Reform der Beitragserhebung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung sein wichtigstes Projekt. Diese hat eine große Bedeutung für die Stärkung des Wettbewerbs in der GKV. Jedoch sind andere Themen für Effizienz, Qualität und Nachhaltigkeit...