This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and … surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health … conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity …

In Hungary, the health status of working age men is extremely bad in comparison with both the developed market … economies and the neighboring transition countries. The study based on data between 1960 and 2004 investigates the health status … of population in Hungary and Austria by health-production functions on macro level and makes comparisons. The rationale …

The purpose of this study is to estimate a health production function of Bangladesh. It searches how individual health … examining socio-demographic parameters shock upon individual health status. This model is statistically significant. This … investigation provides an important role in that individual data gives an insight on how to get better you overall health status …

interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential … futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline policy scenario of health care access, the calibrated model predicts … substantial future increases in health and life expectancy, associated with rising shares of health expenditure in GDP. Freezing …

demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals … general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact of improvements in the effectiveness of health care. We find that …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …