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 …

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 …

consumption due to faster economic growth. Consequently, the debate on rising health care expenditures should not predominantly be … based on the growth effects of health care. …

health investments. As a novelty, we are able to examine the feedback effects between life expectancy and R&D-driven economic …, and iv) there exists a growth-maximizing size of the health caresector that might lie beyond what is observed in most … growth and contribute to the debate surroundingrising health shares and economic development. …

Despite an increasing recognition of the importance of health for economic growth, there is still a lack of … growth model with overlapping generations in which life expectancy depends on health care utilization per capita and on … high, the effect becomes weaker and potentially negative because health improvements are increasingly difficult to achieve …

Chapter 1. Global Health and Development -- Chapter 2. Digital Health -- Chapter 3. Low-Carbon Economy and Healthcare …This book reviews the global preparedness to pandemic challenges to human health and development by compiling the … brilliant ideas of experts and entrepreneurs from the fields of public health, health economics, environmental engineering …