In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized … those demand functions will therefore become invaluable tools. This article proposes a prediction method for the … for future predictions, scenarios and policy evaluation. -- predicting health care demand ; visits to the doctor ; health …

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …