A project aimed at presenting initial results from the implementation of the System of Health Accounts has been carried … by the Health Policy Unit at the OECD and experts from thirteen member countries. The results are presented in the form … of a comparative study (OECD Health Working Papers No. 16) and a set of OECD Health Technical Papers presenting …

Background: Health care expenditures (HCE) are known to steepen with increasing age, but the contributions of ….g. 66 to 70 year olds) at different time points (age-class analysis). Using health insurance claims data including morbidity … and mortality information, HCE growth was analyzed in Swiss mandatory health insurance for the years 1996 to 2011 and …

of literature by examining the association between higher insurance deductibles in the Swiss health system and preventive … conduct our study, we made use of the 2017 Swiss Health Survey and employed an ordered probit model with each prevention …

This paper presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development over time in Switzerland. We … employ the methods lined out in van Doorslaer and Jones (2003) and van Doorslaer and Koolman (2004) measuring health using an … four years separately the results indicates the usual positive relationship between income and health, but the distribution …

This study investigates equity in access to health care in Switzerland over time, using nationwide representative …. We neither find much significant variation over time despite the fact that the share of health care has grown from close … to 8% to more than 11% over this period and that a major reform of the health care system has taken place in 1996 …

. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for …We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …

-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a …