We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

Rationale: The research of social inequalities as determinantes of health state, health needs and use of health care of … population is fundamental in creating and running of the health policy and planning the development health care and health … management. Objectives: The main objective of the present research was to prove the influences of social inequalities on health …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …

We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …, the effect on health is not the result of selection, since the main result survives the inclusion of parents' fixed …-effects. Analysis of National Health Survey data shows that fertility-age women engage in healthier behaviors during recessions (in …

health burdens. Ethical principles of public health are distinguishable from principles applied in modern bioethics … pubic health ethics applies at the population-based or macroethical level. Resolution of issues, for instance of consent to … healthcare interventions and preservation of privacy, is different from public health practice in clinical medicine. Public …

Deductibles are commonly used to tame increasing health care costs. Numerous studies find that higher deductibles … reduce health care utilization. In this paper we compare utilization in Switzerland between two health care plans with … anything health care expenditures are higher for male individuals with the higher deductible, while for females there are no …

underserved population yields considerable health benefits, and (2) suggest that there is a strong substitution element between …