Das etablierte Lehrbuch vermittelt in bewährter Form einen fundierten Überblick über das Gebiet der Gesundheitsökonomie. Es werden die theoretischen Grundlagen von Markt und Wettbewerb und die problematische Übertragbarkeit auf den Gesundheitssektor erläutert. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den...

Versorgungsforschung, gesundheitsökonomische Evaluationen, GKV-Routinedaten, Versorgungsprozesse, Sekundärdaten. - Health services research, health economic evaluations, claims data, secondary data, health care process

This thesis contains three essays on topics from the field of Applied Health Economics. Two major subdivisions of the health care system, the health- and nursing care market, were closer investigated. In particular, the effect of public reporting on nursing home quality in Germany was analyzed....

Building on early animal studies, 20th-century researchers increasingly explored the fact that early events - ranging from conception to childhood - affect a child's health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of research had emerged, incorporating the original "Fetal...

"Guzick's premise is that the United States has a health care industry as opposed to a health care system. His book is organized around three elements of health care delivery: access, quality, and cost. He introduces the economic principles behind the function and dysfunction of the health care...