, including variables that were insignificant in the global parameter models. Results suggest health care scholars consider … varying parameter models in order to avoid global statements concerning health care relationships and evaluating the … performance of health policy. …

This paper analyses the demand for private health care by Spanish households using a micro budget survey. The … private health care, how often to do so and how much to spend each time and also the effects of unobserved heterogeneity …. Since the theoretical framework corresponds to the Grossman model of health investment, the results also provide a test of …

This paper analyses the demand for private health care by Spanish households using a micro budget survey. The … private health care, how often to do so and how much to spend each time and also the effects of unobserved heterogeneity …. Since the theoretical framework corresponds to the Grossman model of health investment, the results also provide a test of …

We study a micro-finance program that provides compulsory health insurance to its borrowers and their spouses. We find … more likely to use the health insurance acquired through his wife's loan than is a woman (through her husband's loan … that the non-borrowing spouses are less likely to file insurance claims than those who are borrowing. Further, a man is …

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to … accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity … of individual health problems and the social integration of individuals influencing the acceptance of EHR. The more the …

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to … accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity … of individual health problems and the social integration of individuals influencing the acceptance of EHR. The more the …

Patients are reluctant to use telemedicine health services. Telemedicine is an "experience good," one that can be … reports the results of a randomized field experiment conducted in collaboration with a health insurance company in Argentina …. During the intervention, about two thousand households with no previous experience with telemedicine received periodic e …

Patients are reluctant to use telemedicine health services. Telemedicine is an "experience good," one that can be … reports the results of a randomized field experiment conducted in collaboration with a health insurance company in Argentina …. During the intervention, about two thousand households with no previous experience with telemedicine received periodic e …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … are still in education to control for selection and account for differences in health-conscious behavior between publicly …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … are still in education to control for selection and account for differences in health-conscious behavior between publicly …