the populations of these countries have reached good health and high degree of socio-economic equality of health. Each of … the five countries has established extensive public health programmes, although with somewhat different emphasis on the … causes of ill-health, such as individual behaviour or social circumstances. Attitudes have changed over time, though. We …

This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness …, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing … standard socio-demographic characteristics influence the reporting style of health care users with regard to the question of …

The health of the world’s population - including those in the poorest countries - has improved more in the past 100 … that exogenous models of development may still be relevant in explain gains in global health. In this paper, background to … Kenny’s book Getting Better, the authors investigate the cross-country determinants of health improvements and describe the …

health who met to discuss problems and potential solutions at the intersection of these fields. This report summarizes this … specific patent doctrines that can provide or help provide sufficient incentives for health-related innovation? Second, is … health information being used proprietarily and if so, is this type of protection appropriate? Third, does IP conflict with …

This chapter summarizes the results of 11 studies that were conducted on the relationship between health and attitude …

theory. Regret theory is one of the established alternatives to expected utility theory (EUT), and partly overcomes the … descriptive limitations of EUT. Under regret theory, agents suffer disutility from regret or enjoy utility from rejoicing by …