The high-speed growth of the health care sector has given this sector an increasingly important role in the stock market. This sector however has the highest mean in our study and a low correlation with the business cycle. On the other hand, T-Bill is also an important asset in investment...

In the last half century, the different healthcare systems of the world countries have undergone fundamental transformations in the structural designs, institutional regulations, and socio-economic and demographic dimensions. The nations have allocated a rising share of total economic resources...

In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that reform on the number of visits. In the model, the...

One key assumption underlying interventions and policies aiming to promote development by increasing the accumulation of human capital, particularly health capital, is that increasing access to and utilisation of health services will translate into health capital. This assumption, from...

In the international health care literature the impacts of competition in health care markets are discussed widely. But aspects of standardization in regional health care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention. Nevertheless, in many health care systems there is...

"This book explores the ways in which tele-audiology can be used to address the different levels of patient care, and how it can increase access, outcomes and reduce an individual's costs while also providing considerable savings to healthcare systems"--Provided by publisher.

Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) represent the nation’s largest initiative of Medicare alternative payment models toward value and health outcomes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have tested various ACO models with differential risk structures, and have issued...